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Chinese Researchers Have Achieved The Impossible: They Have Actually Created An EM Drive

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The bells of joyful news have begun ringing-- after quite the hiatus, the EM drive has returned!  Researchers from China’s space agency have released a video through state media in which they show what appears to be a fully functioning EM drive. For those who are unfamiliar to the EM drive, here’s the crash course. An EM drive, also known as a radio frequency resonant cavity thruster, is theorized to be able to generate thrust without the need of a propellant. The thrust is of the electromagnetic world that is produced from bouncing microwaves back and forth inside a cavity. Think of it like this -- a person is sitting inside of a box and they are faced with a task to make the box move. They do so by pushing out the walls and moving around inside of the box. Also, to top it all off, the total momentum generated by the drive increases as it moves. If an EM drive is to enter our current world of reality, it would be revolutionary, to say the least. Faster space travel and cheaper spacef
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BREAKING: Cambridge Physicists Find Wormhole Proof

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University of Cambridge physicists have developed a theoretical foundation for the existence of wormholes, which are pipelines that connect two dissimilar places in space-time. Time travel and instant communication across great distances may become possible if a piece of data or a physical object could pass through the wormhole. "But there's a problem: Einstein's wormholes are extremely unsteady, and they don't stay open long enough for something to pass over."  In 1988, physicists reached the deduction that a type of negative energy called Casimir energy might keep wormholes open. The hypothetical solution established at Cambridge has to do with the properties of quantum energy, which conveys that even vacuums are teaming by means of waves of energy. “Does this mean we have the technology for building a wormhole?” asks Matt Visser at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. “The answer is still no.” Still, he is intrigued by Butcher ’s work . “From a
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Venus breakthrough: NASA found evidence of 'enough water to support abundant life'

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VENUS has been chosen as the destination for two new NASA missions to investigate the planet's atmosphere and geological features, following the discovery of " enough water to support plentiful life " by NASA. The space agency has announced it will send two robotic missions to the planet by the end of the decade. NASA administrator Bill Nelson said the probes — named Davinci+ and Veritas — will offer the " chance to investigate a planet we haven't been to in more than 30 years ". The missions to Earth’s closest planetary neighbour were picked following a peer-review process and will explore how the once habitable world became a “ hot, hellish, unforgiving ” planet. It comes just months after astronomers from the UK controversially detected phosphine gas 30 miles up in Venus’ clouds, leading researchers to suggest it was a sign of alien life. Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) also previously found that Venus may have once had a s
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This is What Entire Observable Universe Looks Like in a Single Image

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Isn’t it beautiful? This is an illustrated logarithmic scale conception of the observable Universe with the Solar System at the centre. Encircling the Solar System are the inner and outer planets, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, Alpha Centauri star, Perseus Arm, Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda galaxy, other nearby galaxies, the cosmic web, cosmic microwave radiation, and invisible plasma produced by the Big Bang at the very edges. See below for uncropped and zoomable versions. Created by musician and artist Pablo Carlos Budassi, the image is based on logarithmic maps of the Universe put together by Princeton University researchers, as well as images produced by NASA based on observations made by their telescopes and roving spacecraft.
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A Supermassive Black Hole Is Heading Earth’s Way At 110 KM Per Second

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A black hole millions of times the mass of the sun is rushing towards Earth, threatening to wipe out life as we know it. The black hole is travelling at 110 kilometres per second towards us and is located at the centre of the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's nearest and much larger neighbour. A supermassive black hole at the centre of most galaxies is surrounded by stars and helps keep everything in place. However, due to the enormous gravitational pull of the Milky Way and Andromeda, they are being dragged toward each other and will collide one day. " There's a black hole in the centre of the Milky Way ," writes Fraser Cain, publisher of the astronomy website Universe Today, for Phys.org. “And not just any black hole, it’s a supermassive black hole with more than 4.1 million times the mass of the Sun. It’s right over there, in the direction of the Sagittarius constellation.  Located just 26,000 light-years away. And as we speak, it’s in the process of tearing apart
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NASA just recorded actual sound in Space and it’s terrifying

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NASA has recently captured an eerie audio clip that represents actual sound waves rippling through the gas and plasma in the Perseus galaxy cluster, located 250 million light years from Earth.  This mysterious pulsating light, known as GPM J1839–10, has been blinking in space every 21 minutes since at least 1988, and scientists are still trying to figure out what it is. The common belief that space is silent stems from the fact that most of it is a vacuum, providing no medium for sound waves to travel. However, the Perseus galaxy cluster has so much gas that actual sound waves have been detected. These acoustic signals were first identified in 2003 in data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, but they have never been brought into the hearing range of the human ear until now. The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. He
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Astronomers Discover A Water Reservoir Floating In Space That Is Equivalent To 140 Trillion Times All The Water In The Earth's Ocean

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There is a reserve of water the size of 140 trillion oceans lurking in a faraway supermassive black hole, the universe's largest deposit of water and 4,000 times the amount found in the Milky Way.  This amount of water was discovered by two teams of astronomers 12 billion light-years away, where it appears as vapor dispersed across hundreds of light-years. The reservoir was discovered in a quasar's gaseous area, which is a brilliant compact region in the heart of a galaxy powered by a black hole. This finding demonstrates that water may be present throughout the cosmos, even at the start.  While this is not surprising to experts, water has never been discovered this far out before. The light from the quasar (specifically, the APM 08279+5255 quasar in the constellation Lynx) took 12 billion years to reach Earth, implying that this mass of water existed when the universe was just 1.6 billion years old. One group used the Z-Spec instrument at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
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