Astronomers baffled by black hole burping out spaghettified star years after eating it

Astronomers baffled by black hole burping out spaghettified star years after eating it | Superhighway of ancient human and animal footprints in England provides an 'amazing snapshot of the past' | Anglo-Saxon hall where kings and warriors dined discovered in England Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( October 14, 2022 CONNECT WITH LIVESCIENCE  [Facebook]( [Twitter](  [LIVESCIENCE]( Amazing science every day [SIGN UP]( ⋅ [WEBSITE](  [] Top Science News [] [Astronomers baffled by black hole burping out spaghettified star years after eating it]( [Astronomers baffled by black hole burping out spaghettified star years after eating it]( (DESY, Science Communication Lab) Astronomers have spotted a black hole mysteriously spewing up chunks of a devoured star several years after consuming it. The event, which scientists have classified as AT2018hyz, began in 2018 when astronomers saw the black hole ensnare a hapless star in its strong gravitational pull before shredding it to pieces. Then, three years later, in 2021, a New Mexico radio telescope picked up a signal indicating unusual activity — the black hole had begun burping the star out at half the speed of light. Full Story: [Live Science]( (10/14) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] History & Archaeology [] [Superhighway of ancient human and animal footprints in England provides an 'amazing snapshot of the past']( [Superhighway of ancient human and animal footprints in England provides an 'amazing snapshot of the past']( (Victoria Gill/BBC) Thousands of years ago, a swath of land along what is now the western coast of England served as a superhighway for humans and animals alike. Today, the ebb and flow of each passing tide reveals more of the ancient footprints that these long-gone travelers stamped into the once mud-caked route. Reminders of their travels can be seen along a nearly 2-mile-long (3 kilometers) stretch of coastline near Formby, England. The footprint beds show how, as glaciers melted and sea levels rose after the last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago, humans and animals were forced inland, thus forming a hub of human and animal activity seen in the commingled footprints. Full Story: [Live Science]( (10/14) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [Anglo-Saxon hall where kings and warriors dined discovered in England]( [Anglo-Saxon hall where kings and warriors dined discovered in England]( (Suffolk County Council "Rendlesham Revealed" project) Archaeologists in the east of England have unearthed the remains of an elaborate hall that Anglo-Saxon monarchs and warriors feasted in roughly 1,400 years ago. The remains of the royal hall — near the village of Rendlesham in Suffolk, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of London — are only a few miles north of the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo and a few miles south of another ship burial near the village of Snape. Full Story: [Live Science]( (10/14) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Astronomy & Astrophysics [] [Astronomers develop 'early warning system' to watch supernova explosions tear through the cosmos in real time]( [Astronomers develop 'early warning system' to watch supernova explosions tear through the cosmos in real time]( (European Southern Observatory/L. Calçada) Scientists have discovered a telltale clue that a star is about to go supernova. The new discovery could help astronomers develop an "early warning system" before one of these cosmic explosions happens that would allow scientists to watch one in real time, a new study suggests. "With this early-warning system we can get ready to observe them real-time, to point the world's best telescopes at the precursor stars," said study lead author Benjamin Davies. With this early warning, scientists can then "watch them getting literally ripped apart in front of our eyes." Full Story: [Live Science]( (10/14) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Curious Creatures [] [Ancient and bizarre 'innovation crab' from China had eyes on stalks, spike-studded arms and a tail full of 'blades']( [Ancient and bizarre 'innovation crab' from China had eyes on stalks, spike-studded arms and a tail full of 'blades']( (Courtesy of Han Zeng; 3D model created by Dinghua Yang) Imagine a creature shaped somewhat like a toilet brush scuttling along the seafloor around 500 million years ago, near what is now southwestern China. Now picture that toilet brush with eyes bobbing on stalks; a pair of spike-lined armlike appendages; and a tail fan with long, sweeping blades, and you'll have a pretty good image of a newly described animal weirdo that lived during the Cambrian period (541 million to 485.4 million years ago). Full Story: [Live Science]( (10/14) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] ['Majestic' 3-ton sunfish sets a new world record for largest bony fish ever discovered]( ['Majestic' 3-ton sunfish sets a new world record for largest bony fish ever discovered]( (Atlantic Naturalist Association) A gigantic, 3-ton sunfish recently discovered near a Portuguese island has set a new world record for the heaviest bony fish ever recorded, according to a new study. The scale-tipping behemoth, known as a giant sunfish or bump-head sunfish (Mola alexandrini), was discovered on Dec. 9, 2021 as it floated lifelessly off the coast of Faial Island, in the Azores — a Portuguese group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean. Full Story: [Live Science]( (10/14) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] That’s Strange! [] [The CIA wants to bring woolly mammoths back from extinction]( [The CIA wants to bring woolly mammoths back from extinction]( (Dottedhippo via Getty Images) The CIA is funding research into resurrecting extinct animals — including the woolly mammoth and tiger-like thylacine — according to news reports. Via a venture capital investment firm called In-Q-Tel, which the CIA funds, the American intelligence agency has pledged money to the Texas-based tech company Colossal Biosciences. According to Colossal's website, the company's goal is to "see the woolly mammoth thunder upon the tundra once again" through the use of genetic engineering — that is, using technology to edit an organism's DNA. Full Story: [Live Science]( (10/13) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Daily Quiz [] POLL QUESTION: A record-setting giant sunfish found last year weighed more than 6,000 pounds. How much did the previous record holder weigh? 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