The Daily Populous

Tuesday September 5th, 2017 morning edition

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An enormous black hole one hundred thousand times more massive than the sun has been found hiding in a toxic gas cloud wafting around near the heart of the Milky Way.

If the discovery is confirmed, the invisible behemoth will rank as the second largest black hole ever seen in the Milky Way after the supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A* that is anchored at the very centre of the galaxy.

“This is the first detection of an intermediate-mass black hole candidate in the Milky Way galaxy,” he said.

But astronomers also know that much larger, supermassive black holes lie at the heart of large galaxies including the Milky Way, where Sagittarius A* weighs as much as 400m suns.

Edge of darkness: looking into the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way Read more.

“We think some of those black holes are the seeds from which the much larger supermassive black holes grow to at least a million times more massive.

In time, Oka said, the object will be drawn towards Sagittarius A* and sink into it, making the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way even more massive. »

North Korea now a 'global threat' after hydrogen bomb test, says UN nuclear watchdog

Authored by independent.co.uk

North Korea has become a "global threat" after its latest nuclear test, the UN's nuclear watchdog has said.

While the authority said it could not determine whether the explosion came from a hydrogen bomb, as North Korea claimed, Mr Amano said the test's bigger yield means "it is safe to assume North Korea is making significant progress.".

"It's not at the nuclear weapon stage under the treaty but it is clear that North Korea has some nuclear weapons, nuclear explosive devices and missiles. »

Indiana Jones 5: Shia LaBeouf character not returning

Authored by ew.com

Perhaps, but it won’t be Mutt Williams — a.k.a. Indy’s son, Henry Jones III — the character Shia LaBeouf played in 2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

“Harrison plays Indiana Jones, that I can certainly say,” screenwriter David Koepp, who has penned a script for the fifth film in the storied Indiana Jones franchise, tells EW.

“And the Shia LaBeouf character is not in the film.”. »

TIL after the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 the debris field stretched from Texas through Louisiana, and the search team was so thorough they found nearly 84,000 pieces of the shuttle, as well as a number of murder victims and a few meth labs.

Authored by theatlantic.com

Ron Dittemore, the shuttle program manager, would be talking to reporters later that day, and he needed numbers and information.

He did not follow the space program and, like most Americans, had not been aware that a mission was under way.

He was in Florida standing at the landing site beside one of his deputies, a former shuttle commander named William Readdy. »

Bank’s thumbprint rule irks man with no arms

Authored by nbcnews.com

A Florida man born without arms says a Tampa bank would not let him cash a check because he couldn't provide a thumbprint.

Steve Valdez didn't have an account at a Bank of America location in downtown Tampa, where he tried to cash a check from his wife last week.

However, Valdez has prosthetic arms and is unable to provide a thumbprint. »