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Scientists Detect Radio Echoes of a Black Hole Feeding on a Star

By Jennifer Chu | MIT News on Mar 19, 2018   Science/Education  

Scientists Detect Radio Echoes of a Black Hole Feeding on a Star

On Nov. 11, 2014, a global network of telescopes picked up signals from 300 million light years away that were created by a tidal disruption flare — an explosion of electromagnetic energy that occurs when a black hole rips apart a passing star. Since this discovery, astronomers have trained other telescopes on this very rare […]

Seismic Gap May be Filled by an Earthquake near Istanbul

By Jennifer Chu | MIT News on Sep 10, 2014   Breaking News, Featured, Science/Education  

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When a segment of a major fault line goes quiet, it can mean one of two things: The “seismic gap” may simply be inactive — the result of two tectonic plates placidly gliding past each other — or the segment may be a source of potential earthquakes, quietly building tension over decades until […]

A Possible Cause of the End-Permian Mass Extinction: Lemon Juice?

By Jennifer Chu | MIT News on Nov 25, 2013   Science/Education  

MIT researchers find that rain as acidic as lemon juice may have contributed to massive die-offs on land 252 million years ago.

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