In 2019, my colleagues and I discovered spooky glowing rings in the sky using CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope in Western Australia. The rings were unlike anything seen before, and we had no idea what they were.
We dubbed them odd radio circles, or ORCs. They continue to puzzle us, but new data from South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope are helping us solve the mystery.
We
can now see each ORC is centered on a galaxy too faint to be detected
earlier. The circles are most likely enormous explosions of hot gas,
about a million light years across, emanating from the central galaxy.
Our paper showing these results has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. …
Two shootings wounded five people in the city this past weekend. A
curfew will go into effect late this week requiring that people be off
the streets between midnight and 6AM
The City of Miami Beach has declared a state of emergency in addition
to implementing an upcoming curfew in order to curb violence across the
city this spring break.
The move from officials comes after shootings this past weekend wounded five people.
During a news conference
Monday with the Miami Beach Police Department and other city officials,
Mayor Dan Gelber said that tourists had created an “unacceptable”
atmosphere across the city, and that the city was “way past its
endpoint.”
The mayor emphasized that he, along with city
officials, don’t ask for spring break to come to Miami Beach, but simply
endure it. …
