New space observatory helps solve mystery involving enormous black holes
- 24-Nov-2022
Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way’s centre, some are fierce-guzzling surrounding material and unleashing huge and blazingly bright jets of high-energy particles far into space. Using data from the recently deployed Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) orbiting observatory, researchers […]
Aleppo violence kills 30 people in past 24 hours: Syrian Observatory
- 26-Apr-2016
ALEPPO: Fighting in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo has killed at least 30 people in the past 24 hours including at least eight children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
Three months of Russia raids on Syria kill more than 2,300: monitor
- 30-Dec-2015
BEIRUT: Three months of Russian air strikes in Syria have killed more than 2,300 people, a third of them civilians, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.