Engineers have cooked up a material made of carbon nanotubes that is 10 times blacker than anything that has previously been reported. …read more Source:: Science
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Supersonic gas streams left over from the Big Bang drive massive black hole formation
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•A super-computer simulation by an international team of researchers has shown the formation of a rapidly growing star from supersonic gas streams in the early universe left over from the …read more Source:: Science
LIGO and Virgo observatories jointly detect black hole collision
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•The first observation of gravitational waves has been discovered by by three different detectors, marking a new era of greater insights and improved localization of cosmic events now available through …read more Source:: Science
Natural compound coupled with specific gut microbes may prevent severe flu
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•A particular gut microbe can prevent severe flu infections in mice, likely by breaking down naturally occurring compounds — called flavonoids — commonly found in foods such as black tea, …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers detect orbital motion in pair of supermassive black holes
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•Images made with the continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array detect the orbital motion of two supermassive black holes as they circle each other at the center of a distant galaxy. …read more Source:: Science
Virus carrying DNA of black widow spider toxin discovered
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•Biologists sequencing the genome of the WO virus, which infects the bacterial parasite Wolbachia, have discovered that the phage carries DNA that produces black widow spider toxin: the first time …read more Source:: Science