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M87 Black Hole Size ComparisonxkcdAlt/title text:“I think Voyager 1 would be just past the event horizon, but slightly less than halfway to the bright ring.”More:- Explain xkcd- Focus on the First Event Horizon Telescope Results - The Astrophysical Journal Letters - IOPscience- NASA news: Black Hole Image Makes History; NASA Telescopes Coordinated Observations- NSF Media resources- Event Horizon Telescope (Official website)- A Non-Expert’s Guide to a Black Hole’s Silhouette by Matt Strassler - APOD: First Horizon-Scale Image of a Black Hole

I’m actually surprised I didn’t walk out of Trader Joe’s with more than three boxes of this hand cream. Not to say that I didn’t come close… But I didn’t have a basket. And I was only supposed to zip in and out before HIIT class. And I didn’t want to be late. So I didn’t really have time to carry a tall stack of them awkwardly across the store. Now, if I’d had a few extra minutes and/or a basket, I would’ve totally been that person who walks up to the register with a box of these mini ice...

This time of year always reminds me of one of the most astounding acts of selflessness and courage I’ve ever seen. The year: 2012. The place: New York City, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The night before the parade, disaster struck the team in charge of the company float for Tabs the Cat Industries LLC. The float wasn’t going to be ready in time because the white roses the team special ordered from Belgium got held up in customs, so Tabs stayed up all night long decorating the entire float himself with local flowers he picked himself from around Central...

Keep your underwear on, please. Even though Urban Decay wants you to Stay Naked, I would strongly urge you against going completely commando, because hello! — air conditioning is no joke! Stay Naked, a new collection available meow from UD, includes a liquid foundation, concealer and sheer lip tints. STAY NAKED WEIGHTLESS LIQUID FOUNDATION, $39 What is this — blood magic? Because one layer of Urban Decay’s new medium-coverage, pore-blurring Stay Naked Foundation hides uneven pigmentation on my cheeks without masking my freckles. It’s exactly the kind of sheer, barely-there coverage I love, and even though the matte finish is...

A variation of Dyson sphere.This and other futuristic ideas by cosmologist Max Tegmark (known for his Mathematical universe hypothesis - Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality) in this interesting Discover article (extracted from his book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence) that I just stumbled upon: Our Next Billion Years Thirteen point eight billion years after its birth, our universe has awoken and become aware of itself. From a small blue planet, tiny conscious parts of our universe have begun gazing out into the cosmos with telescopes, repeatedly discovering that everything...