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What Does a Black Hole Really Look Like?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 20, 2017
39-year-old drawing hints at what the Event Horizon Telescope may have just captured: the true shape of a black hole

By David Aragorn
Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 20, 2017
Enceladus is ripe for life. In one final pass through the icy moon’s liquid plumes, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft found molecular hydrogen, which indicates favourable conditions for life in Enceladus’s subsurface sea.

By David Aragorn
Could Moon Miners Use Railguns to Launch Ore into Space?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 19, 2017
The United States Navy fired a projectile at Mach 6 during a recent test with an electromagnetic railgun, suggesting that early ideas about using such tech to launch payloads from the lunar surface might not be so sci-fi after all.

By David Aragorn
Volcanic Activity on Ancient Mars May Have Produced Organic Life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 19, 2017
New research suggests that active volcanoes on the Red Planet could have created an environment habitable to ancient microbes.

By David Aragorn
First ‘image’ of a dark matter web that connects galaxies 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 19, 2017
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been able to capture the first composite image of a dark matter bridge that connects galaxies together. The scientists publish their work in a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

By David Aragorn
The Mystery of How Black Holes Collide and Merge Is Beginning to Unravel 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2017
A new study pursues a kind of “paleontology” for gravitational waves in an attempt to explain how and why black holes collide and merge.

By David Aragorn
Scientists make progress on unravelling the puzzle of merging black holes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2017
Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have made progress in understanding a key mystery of gravitational-wave astrophysics: how two black holes can come together and merge.

By David Aragorn
The Surface of Saturn’s Titan is Electrically Charged –“It’s a Strange, Electrostatically Sticky World”0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 14, 2017
“Titan’s extreme physical environment requires scientists to think differently about what we’ve learned of Earth’s granular dynamics,” said Josef Dufek, with the Georgia Institute of Technology. “Landforms are influenced by forces that aren’t intuitive to us because those forces aren’t so important on Earth. Titan is a strange, electrostatically sticky world.” Visually, Titan is the

By David Aragorn
Mars’s atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn’t exist 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 14, 2017
Mars’s atmosphere harbours a layer of electrically charged metal atoms, and they’re not behaving as expected.

By David Aragorn
Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 13, 2017
An Earth-sized planet orbiting a dim star 39 light years away has a hazy atmosphere that could indicate the presence of a “water world”.

By David Aragorn