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A B= LACK HOLE IN OUR GALAXY
Thursday, May 12, 2022
In today’s newsletter, w= e get the first glimpse of a destructi= ve giant, home in on hippos, photograph wonders off the Phi= lippines … and walk the plank on this week&= #x2019;s news quiz=2E
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The thing is packed with the heft of four million suns=2E It is in the= heart of our galaxy, cloaked behind gas, dust, and stars=2E It has never b= een seen before=2E That is, until today=2E

As Na= dia Drake reports, scientists using a global telescope network hav= e unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole in our galaxy=2E Named Sagi= ttarius A*, the darkened back hole is surrounded by a glowing silhouette&#x= 2014;and it’s striking, not just to astronomers=2E

”Y= ou work on something, but it’s very abstract,” says the Unive= rsity of Amsterdam’s Sera Markoff, = 1C;and then suddenly it’s like—there it is=2E You’re l= ooking at the black hole=2E”

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PHOTOGRAPH BY @DAISYGILARDINI
Hippos in the weeds: Check out the giant Salvi= nia, also known as Kariba weed, that is atop this hippo-laden pond in Namib= ia=2E While Salvinia makes a pretty picture, especially with hippos, the in= vasive water plant reduces water flow and decreases light and oxygen level = in the water=2E That hurts fish and partially submerged aquatic plants=2E I= f you’re here for the hippos, here’s our story on how they ca= n do whatever t= hey want=2E

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Nibbling at a behemoth: These quaking aspen tr= ees are among 47,000 trees in a Utah grove with the same root structure=2E = The grove, thousands of years old, is the heaviest single organism on the p= lanet—but it’s threatened by mule deer and cattle, nibbling a= t the new sprouts that would usually replace the individual trees=2E And th= at could eventually kill the grove, ecologist Paul Roger= s says=2E “Imagine walking into a town of 50,000 people whe= re everybody in town was 85 years old,” Rogers tells Nat Geo=2E “That= 019;s sort of the issue=2E”
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What’s that, you ask? This pair of gold= en gobies peer from inside a glass bottle that they’ve made their ho= me in waters off the Philippines=2E They look more like goblins than gobies= with algae around them because the photograph was made with a long exposur= e=2E The nation has some of the best coral reefs in the world, many of them= protected, but destructive fishing practices and climate change have threa= tened them, Nat Geo reports=2E
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