Heaviest known black hole in Milky Way uncovered

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 Joel Kontinen 

“The Milky Way galaxy’s heaviest known black hole has been discovered in a binary star system, Tel Aviv University announced on Tuesday.”

What is the nature of the black hole that was discovered by Israeli scientists ,It is called the galaxy’s heaviest known black hole, it is1,500 light-years away from Earth.  

The star, which orbits a black hole 33 times heavier than the sun’s mass..

“This is an exciting discovery of the heaviest black hole in a binary system known today in the galaxy,” said Tel Aviv University Professor Emeritus Tsevi Mazeh.

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Pesach Benson, 2024.  Heaviest known black hole in Milky Way uncovered 16 April.

2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope

 

 

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Joel Kontinen

A "city-killer" asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth.

The asteroid, named 2013 NK4, is around 610 metres or 2,000 feet wide, making it about twice the size of the "god of chaos" asteroid Apophis.

It will make a trip of 3.2 million kilometres or 2 million miles from Earth.

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Harry Baker, 2024, 2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope (msn.com) April 16.

50-foot 'king of the serpents' may have been the biggest snake to ever live

 

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Joel Kontinen

A Giant, 47 million-year-old snake fossils pulled from mine in India may be the largest snake ever, potentially surpassing Titanoboa by around 15 feet. The newfound snake was much longer than any living snake, including this green anaconda. 

“Scientists in India have discovered the fossilized remains of an ancient snake that may be the largest known serpent to ever live.”

The supersized serpent may have measured 15 meters or 50 feet  long — surpassing the current record-holder Titanoboa by around 2 meters or 6.5 feet, .

“The newly identified species, named Vasuki Indicus, takes its genus name from the mythical king of serpents in Hinduism, which is often depicted wrapped around the neck of one of Hinduism's main deities, Shiva.”

Scientists believe that the fossil is 47 million years old and it is a fully grown adult.

“V. indicus belongs to a group of snakes known as Madtsoiidae, which first appeared in the late Cretaceous period (100.5 million to 66 million years ago), in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe.”

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Jacklin Kwan, 2024, 50-foot 'king of the serpents' may have been the biggest snake to ever live  13 April

  

Giant, 82-foot lizard fish discovered on UK beach could be largest marine reptile ever found

 

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Joel Kontinen

Scientists say that a newly discovered ichthyosaurthat lived 200 million years ago in the Triassic period was potentially the biggest to ever live.  

It was about 25 metres or 82 feet long.  It is called Ichthyotitan severnensis and it lived during the end of the Triassic period.

the date of the death of this reptile is false. It probably died in the Flood of Noah’s time, some 4 500 years ago.

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Richard Pallardy, 2024,  Giant, 82-foot lizard fish discovered on UK beach could be largest marine reptile ever found | Live Science 18 April 

Australia says Assyrian church stabbing was terrorist act

 

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Joel Kontinen

What will pro-Hamas terrorist do to get their worldview heard? In Australia, “Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism.”

At least  four people, including Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel of the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church, were wounded when “a man lunged at him with a knife during a service live-streamed on Monday.”

The assailant was said to say Allah Akbar.

Such church incidents were supposed to take place in Nigeria, but now it seems they have become the norm also in Australia.  

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Renju Jose and Lewis Jackson. 2024. Sydney church stabbing: Boy, 16, arrested after Bishop attacked (bbc.com) 16  April.

The Multiverse doesn't exist

 

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Joel Kontinen

A new way of interpreting the elusive mathematics of quantum mechanics could fundamentally change our understanding of reality

The many-more-worlds interpretation enlarges the multiverse

What do we know about multiverses. Are They Real? Some say that the “Multiverse could be Infinitely bigger than we ever imagine”, This Is According to a new interpretation of quantum mechanics that describes realms upon realms of parallel universes created with every decision we make.

Those  who say that multiverses are real refer to  ‘The heart of quantum mechanics is the wave function, An Infamously abstract and fuzzy mathematical tool that is extremely good at describing the behaviour of photons, electrons and other denizens of the quantum realm. “

But What Exactly Is the wave function? After almost a century of arguments, physicists still disagree on How they come about.

So it seems that multiverses are not real. They are a figment of some progressive  thinking that is not based on fact.

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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, 2024, The multiverse could be much, much bigger than we ever imagined | New Scientist 9 April

Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies 30 times closer to Earth than the moon

 

Orbital trajectories of Earth and asteroid 2024 GJ2. 

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Joel Kontinen

An asteroid that was discovered on Tuesday (April 9) made an extremely close, but harmless, pass by planet Earth on April 11. It was one of the space rocks that NASA did not know about.

“Asteroid 2024 GJ2 is roughly the size of a car,. Astronomers have calculated that the space rock would graze by Earth at a mere 19.3-thousand-kilometer or 12-thousand-mile) distance — that's just three percent the distance between the Earth and the moon. 2024 GJ2 measures between 2.5 and 5 meters or 8.2 and 16 fee), according to the European Space Agency (ESA).”

 

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Josh Dinneer,  2024. Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies by Earth at 1/30th the distance of the moon | Live Science 11April.