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So, it appears that the NFL has shortened the preseason games by eliminating weeks 1 and 4. This is the second amendment to the preseason schedule this year following the league’s cancellation of the annual Hall of Fame Game, which typically serves as the first exhibition game of the season. For example, The NFL announced the match up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys would be moved to next year. In recent years, the fourth preseason game has been largely ceremonial, with a number of starters typically on the sidelines to avoid the risk of injury a week before the season begins.
In other news, the NFL may ask fans to sign the liability waivers to attend games amid pandemic as we expect to have an NFL season this year and they also will not hold the 2020 supplemental draft amid pandemic. This event is usually held in July, providing an option for players who might not be eligible to play college football the next season. If a team selects a player in the supplemental draft, they forfeit that round’s selection in the draft the following season. Regardless of adjustments to the college season, players will have to wait until the 2021 draft to enter the NFL as college players may leave school because of the uncertainty of the college football season.
Stay tuned for NFL updates.
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The fastest-growing black hole ever observed has been given an approximate weight, and it tips the scale at 34 billion times the mass of the Sun. The researchers who’ve estimated its weight also say it continues to grow, devouring a Sun’s worth of matter per day. On top of claiming those mondo stats, the gorging monster may also help to unlock some key mysteries of the early universe.
The “ultramassive black hole” (that’s literally a class of black hole), dubbed J2157-3602, was discovered in 2018 and given an initial weight of 20 billion solar masses—a solar mass is a unit of mass equivalent to the mass of the Sun. Since then, researchers have gone back and taken new measurements using the Very Large Telescope array in Chile. (Pictured immediately below.)
J2157 is “about 8,000 times bigger than the black hole in the centre of the Milky Way,” astronomer Christopher Onken of Australian National University told Science Alert. He added that “If the Milky Way’s black hole wanted to grow that fat, it would have to swallow two thirds of all the stars in our galaxy.”
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Onken and others described these new measurements in a paper recently published in the journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. In the paper, which comes via ZME Science, the researchers say that the ultramassive black hole is, on top of being gargantuan, also the most luminous quasar in the known universe. A quasar—pictured at top—is essentially a black hole that’s actively pulling in gas and dust from a surrounding accretion disk. In other words, a “feeding” black hole.
Although J2157 is huge beyond imagination, it isn’t the most massive black hole we’ve ever observed. That title belongs to an ultramassive black hole powering the quasar known as TON 618, which is about 10.4 billion light-years away from Earth. That indescribably large light-swallowing beast weighs in at 66 billion solar masses. Below, for visual reference, is a comparison of all the differently sized black holes.
Like TON 618, J2157 is also astoundingly far from Earth. According to Science Alert, J2157 is some billions of light-years away. However, the measurement isn’t as exact as that for TON 618. J2157 can still help to illuminate the very early universe, however, when it was younger than 1 billion years old. Especially when it comes to gleaning information about the galaxy in which it resides.
“Is this galaxy one of the behemoths of the early Universe, or did the black hole just swallow up an extraordinary amount of its surroundings?” Onken asked rhetorically. Depending on the answer to that question, cosmological models explaining how the universe has grown over time could be altered. Right now, astronomers are still just trying to figure out how black holes can grow to be as massive as J2157 so early on in the universe’s existence.
What do you think about J2157 and its ability to swallow a Sun’s worth of mass every single day? Do you have any ideas as to how the ultramassive hole will change our understanding of the early universe? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
Feature image: European Southern Observatory
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Earlier this week, we wrote about DJ Akademiks and his vile, ridiculous, and unwarranted comments about Chrissy Teigen.
In case you missed it, here are just a portion of what he said.
“It’s bewildering to me. His b*tch be talking mad sh*t online. What’s…I dislike this b*tch so much, I can’t even lie to you.
One time she sneak-dissed me so f*ck that hoe. Straight up and John Legend could hear that. Don’tRe have your b*tch dissing me because I don’t give two f*cks about none of y’all niggas.”
Well, it turns out that his words came back to bite him in the butt.
Complex has decided to suspend the Everyday Struggle co-host.
And yesterday, Akademiks hopped online to offer an apology.
“I definitely wanna start off by kind of like apologizing for some of the stuff that’s been going on outside the show. In particular, while I was defending myself against rapper A, rapper B, I think I definitely went over the line when I was disrespecting women. It just wasn’t right. After thinking about it, even seeing the clip, it’s nasty. Truth be told, given everything that’s going on not only the world, given what’s going on with the current climate at Complex and also former employees and current employees , also working with Nadeska, someone I have a lot of love for, I just felt it was completely out of pocket and something that I had to admit. Yo, you can’t be a hypocrite saying you’re going to be an ally and stand for riding for causes that matter and then you don’t do these other things or say these other things.
I want to officially offer an apology. I’m extending my apology to Nadeska and anyone who may have been offended.”
You can watch his apology in the video below.
Interestingly enough, he never mentioned Teigen’s name but aight.
Akademiks said he spoke to Complex leadership and he will be absent for two episodes. In addition to this punishment from his employer, his Twitch account has been deactivated.