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Black hole that’s 33 times bigger than the sun found ‘lurking undetected’ close to Earth | Science & Tech News
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Astronomers have discovered the Milky Way’s “most massive” stellar black hole yet. The newly discovered black hole is 33 times bigger than the sun and 2,000 light years away from us. A stellar black hole is formed when a star collapses – and so far, the ones found in our galaxy have been about 10…
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Asteroid the size of a skyscraper to pass close to Earth today | Science & Tech News
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An asteroid the size of a skyscraper will pass close to the Earth today – cosmically speaking. The hulk of space rock is expected to soar within 1.7 million miles of our planet, but there’s no chance of it hitting us, NASA says. The space agency’s Centre for Near Earth Object Studies estimates the asteroid…
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US defence chief insists world ‘nowhere close’ to existential AI threat | Science & Tech News
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The world is “nowhere close” to artificial intelligence (AI) becoming an existential threat, according to the Pentagon’s computer intelligence chief who predicts future supremacy in the field will all come down to data. Recent headlines around generative models like ChatGPT have misled people about their power, according to Dr Craig Martell, the US defence department’s…