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Ghostly "comets" have been found orbiting black hole

Ghostly “comets” have been found orbiting near the mouth of a supermassive black hole, a new study says. A team of European and U.S

…Ghostly “comets” have been found orbiting near the mouth of a supermassive black hole, a new study says.A team of European and U.S. astronomers recently used Japan’s Suzaku space telescope to study radiation pouring out of a black hole that’s ten million times the mass of our sun. This monster black hole sits at the core of the spiral galaxy NGC 1365, 56 million light-years from Earth.(Related: “Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe?”)Thanks to a fortuitous alignment of the space telescope and the black hole, astronomers were able to detect weird, comet-shaped clouds orbiting close to the black hole at breakneck speeds of thousands of miles a second.”Unlike mountain-size icy comets found in our solar system, the ones we are seeing are made of stellar-size, superhot gaseous remains of stars ripped apart by black holes,” said study co-author James Reeves of Keele University in the U.K.The unusual discovery suggests that all supermassive black holes might have comet-like clouds, which may change how…

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Malfunctioning iPod Brought a Tokyo Subway Train To A Halt

An unidentified, malfunctioning iPod brought a Tokyo subway train to a halt for an eight minutes during this morning’s rush hour.

…is caused by suppliers cutting corners.

Or it could be poorly designed product. No, can’t be that. Must be the suppliers.

But where is Apple’s Quality Control? Before the products are made, Apple should be testing the supplies to make sure they meet their specifications. You don’t just do that once, go “OK, all’s good” and then build 5 billion of the things. You test all the time.

You would think after all the laptop battery problems that this issue would not occur again,

Why would you think that? How long did it take Apple to fix the laptop battery issue? Well, never, actually, until they redesigned the MacBookPro. (And those haven’t been around long enough to make people sure they aren’t going to start expanding as well).

but cheaper supplies from China seem to find a way to buck trends. I mean, where else can you buy a harmless product like toothpaste and find antifreeze as an ingredient?

Yeah, and how did that get released? Because…

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