The most intimate portrait yet of a black hole
An image provided by ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Goddi et al., shows part of the jet in Messier 87, 6,000 light-years long, shown in polarized light. Two years of analyzing the polarized light from a galaxys giant black hole has given scientists a glimpse at how quasars might arise. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Goddi et al., via The New York Times.
by Dennis Overbye
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, an international team of radio astronomers that has been staring down the throat of a giant black hole for years, has published what it called the most intimate portrait yet of the forces that give rise to quasars, the luminous fountains of energy that can reach across interstellar and intergalactic space and disrupt the growth of distant galaxies.
The Best webtoon manhwa websites in 2021
Rising South Korean webtoons manhwa raises the alarm to Japans manga.Japanese manga has been become popular almost all over the world. However, the Japanese manga is now at a crossroads when intense competition from overseas keeps increasing.
The strongest competitor comes not far from Japan. The rising South Korean webtoons - a portmanteau of web and cartoons are now overshading Japanese global presence of manage. Over the last couple of years, South Korean webtoons have strongly invaded Japanese market and targeted to digital native youth who are now more into smartphones and internet than the traditional printed manga.
Regen Projects opens a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner
Installation view of Liz Larner As Stars and Seas Entwine at Regen Projects, Los Angeles March 27 May 22, 2021. Photo: Evan Bedford, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
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.-Regen Projects is presenting As Stars and Seas Entwine, the eighth solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner, whose deep research-based practice is united by a continual exploration of form, material, and color. This exhibition debuts one of the new large-scale floor sculptures and a number of ceramic works that will be included in Below Above, a forthcoming museum exhibition at Kunsthalle Zurich in the summer of 2022.
Constance Demby, prominent new age composer, is dead at 81
Demby, whose ethereal music, some of it played on instruments she designed, was much admired by New Age adherents, spiritual seekers and fans of electronica, died on March 19 in Pasadena, Calif. She was 81. Lisa Verlo via The New York Times.
by Neil Genzlinger
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Constance Demby, whose ethereal music, some of it played on instruments she designed, was much admired by New Age adherents, spiritual seekers and fans of electronica, died on March 19 in Pasadena, California. She was 81.
Her son and only immediate survivor, Joshua Demby, said the cause was complications of a heart attack.