"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

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Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of that material falls to the earth. When it enters the atmosphere, we call it a meteor. If it lands, it's a meteorite.

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.

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On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...