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How fungus inside one of the most radioactive reactors in Chernobyl is able to absorb deadly radiation
A black fungus that's growing in Chernobyl's infamous No. 4 nuclear reactor is absorbing some of its radiation as part of its ...
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Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...
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'Hawking radiation' may be erasing black holes. Watching it happen could reveal new physics.
Primordial black holes (PBHs), which are thought to have formed right after the Big Bang, may be heating up and exploding ...
Gravitational waves may prove black holes' quantum effect and resolve the dark matter problem
Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...
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Black body radiation
Jonny Nelson introduces an animated explanation of black body radiation. All objects are continually absorbing and emitting infrared radiation, for example a heater (radiator). There are no known ...
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This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation—A Biologist Explains
It left a 30-kilometer exclusion zone—a deserted landscape where high radiation levels remain even ... an unlikely survivor: a resilient black fungus called Cladosporium sphaerospermum.
Astronomers capture unprecedented view of supermassive black hole in action
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...