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Astronomers may have detected a 'dark' free-floating black hole

Posted: 10 Jun 2022 09:02 AM PDT

Astronomers have discovered what may be a free-floating black hole by observing the brightening of a more distant star as its light was distorted by the object's strong gravitational field -- so-called gravitational microlensing.

Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid

Posted: 09 Jun 2022 04:50 PM PDT

Scientists have now begun to announce the first results from the analysis of a handful of dirt that Hayabusa2 managed to scoop off the surface of a speeding asteroid. What they found suggests that this asteroid is a piece of the same stuff that coalesced into our sun four-and-a-half billion years ago.