Three men have appeared in court over an alleged plot to behead a member of the public. The three were remanded in custody on terror charges. Channel 4 News’ Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel has the details.
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Peering through a giant cosmic magnifying glass, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted one of the farthest, faintest, and smallest Continue reading
Peering through a giant cosmic magnifying glass, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted one of the farthest, faintest, and smallest galaxies ever seen. The diminutive object is estimated to be over 13 billion light-years away.
This new detection is considered one of the most reliable distance measurements of a galaxy that existed in the early universe, said the Hubble researchers. They used two independent methods to estimate its distance.
The galaxy was detected as part of the Frontier Fields program, an ambitious three-year effort, begun in 2013, that teams Hubble with NASA’s other Great Observatories — the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory — to probe the early universe by studying large galaxy clusters. These clusters are so massive that their gravity deflects light passing through them, magnifying, brightening, and distorting background objects in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. These powerful lenses allow astronomers to find many dim, distant structures that otherwise might be too faint to see.
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A scientific visualization of a black hole passing through Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
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A scientific visualization of a black hole passing through Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
This scientific visualization demonstrates the visual distortion known as gravitational lensing. A black hole, with roughly the mass of the planet Saturn, is imagined to pass over the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD. The view of the buildings on the far side of the harbor are distorted using the calculated effects of Einstein’s general relativity.
A black hole warps the space around it. Light that passes near a black hole will follow curved paths and can create multiple images and other visual artifacts. Note that the sky can sometimes be seen by looking below the black hole. These distortions are similar to what can be produced using glass lenses, and are produced by similar optics equations. The effects are called gravitational lensing – lensing that redirects light using mass instead of glass.
The calculations for the visualization use a planar approximation that assumes the buildings are all at the same distance, but are otherwise accurate. Note also that foreground objects, like the boat mast, were not isolated and removed from the image before distortion. In a fully accurate visualization, foreground objects would not be distorted.
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It’s one way to avoid some tough questions: Sir David Omand, former head of GCHQ brings an interview with Jon Snow about how a telecoms firm worked with GCHQ, to a very abrupt end.
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Asia correspondent John Sparks hears allegations from a Triad gang-leader that the Hong Kong student protesters were infiltrated by agent provocateurs. Jimmy Lai, a predominant supporter of the movement, also says that it is time to retreat.
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English actor, screenwriter and director Noel Clarke tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy that he believes “things are moving forward” in the industry and that there were more opportunities for black actors. Clarke is an ambassador of London 360.
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