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Happy Birthday to Mary Somerville (26 Dec 1780 – 29 Nov 1872), the brilliant Scottish scientist, writer, mathematician and science writer. The word scientist was coined for her. In an era filled with great men of science but few women, she pioneered the art of presenting science in words that were engaging and accessible to a wide audience. She predicted the presence of Neptune based on the perturbations of the orbit of Uranus.

Mary Somerville - Wikipedia

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Researchers, using the JWST, have confirmed that a black hole, first detected in 2023 by the same team, is indeed a supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole, racing away from its host galaxy at 3.43 million km/h. RBH-1 contains ~20 million solar masses and has left behind a 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars, twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy, as it plows ahead into the circumgalactic medium (CGM). https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04166

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Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars - NASA Science

There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel ...

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What a Miserable Life. #UsPol 1/n

An insightful read - Q: Why are political leaders pushing anti-science rhetoric and easily disprovable lies? A: This isn’t about ignorance of science. It’s about power. If you can convince a large segment of the population that experts cannot be trusted, institutions are corrupt, objective truth doesn’t exist, and loyalty matters more than evidence, then power no longer depends on performance or results. It depends on identity and obedience.

My Final Political Post - The Republican Strategy, Key Players, Timeline, Likely Outcome, and How We Should Respond

What started with a single question about the proliferation of anti-vax conspiracy theories, resulted in a life-changing discussion with A.I. about...

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On this Christmas Day, let's revisit the age old question of how Santa is able to deliver gifts to 100s of millions of households worldwide in one night. Check out the rival theories by leading physicists in the thread below. 🎅 🦌 ⚛️ 🥳

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Attached: 1 image On this Christmas Day, let's look again at the question of how Santa can deliver gifts to millions of households in one night. ...

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