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Fortnite season 10 ended last night with a bang quite literally, the whole map was gobbled up by a Black Hole with the game’s servers going down soon after, leaving Fortnite players thinking the world has ended. The huge ending to Fortnite season 10 went down yesterday and marked a …

The $270 million Japanese satellite, Hitomi, launched earlier this year, has gone quiet, leaving scientists on the ground anxious to get back in touch with it. Although there has been some sporadic messages from the orbiting craft, no solid lines of communication have been opened up, with some wondering whether …

Astronomers, working with NASA's Rossi X Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope have recorded a black hole ejecting a highly energetic knot of gas, likened to a ‘bullet', into space. Gregory Sivakoff, astronomer said in a press release “Like a referee at a …

Last week the NASA Rossi X Ray Timing Explorer may have found the smallest known black hole. Using the RTXE, which can detect X rays coming from cosmic sources, a group of astronomers have been able to identify an X ray pattern, known as a ‘hearbeat'. This indicates that a …