By Katie Hunt, CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/27/world/earth-supermassive-black-hole-milky-way-scn/index.html

Updated 12:01 PM ET, Fri November 27, 2020The new map suggests that the center of the Milky Way, and the black hole which sits there, is located 25,800 light-years from Earth. This is closer than the official value of 27,700 light-years adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1985.

(CNN)A new map of the Milky Way by Japanese space experts has put Earth 2,000 light years closer to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.This map has suggested that the center of the Milky Way, and the black hole which sits there, is located 25,800 light-years from Earth. This is closer than the official value of 27,700 light-years adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1985, the National Observatory of Japan said.

New type of black hole detected in massive collision that sent gravitational waves with a ‘bang’What’s more…

https://newschannel9.com/sports/outdoors/man-jailed-for-poaching-tennessee-elk

Sean Doney, 33, of Caryville, Tenn. has pleaded guilty to illegally killing a cow elk on the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area (NCWMA) in Campbell County.

As reported on NewsChannel9.com/Outdoors, a $2,000 reward was offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

TWRA Elk Biologist Brad Miller got the call and found the dead elk on Dec. 23, 2019. The elk was wearing a GPS collar designated “Cow #15” as part of a 3-year elk research study with the University of Tennessee Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries.

After an investigation and assistance from the local district attorney, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Wildlife Officer Brenden Marlow charged Doney after he was identified by members of the public in result…

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‘Finishing’ is yet another of the words with which the animal use industry glosses over the monstrous activities of our species.

‘Finishing’ is part of the practice of making victims out of gentle and defenceless individuals for nonvegan consumers to eat their bodies or use them to death. Largely unchallenged and mistakenly thought to be bucolic and wholesome, the activities inherent in ‘farming’ innocent lives and bodies for financial gain are so inherently brutal that it’s littered with such euphemisms. Every challenge is met by the industry with rhetoric about ‘welfare‘, another glossy euphemism that has zero to do with victim wellbeing and everything to do with easing consumer conscience so they keep on spending.

These are the soothing, feel-good words of a business that absolutely depends on preventing the consumers who pay them from realising that what’s actually happening on their…

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By Nadja PopovichMarch 17, 2020

As the new coronavirus shuts down countries around the world, the impact can be seen from space.

A satellite that detects traces of human activity — tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks, fossil fuel burned in power plants and other industrial activities — shows striking reductions in pollution across China and Italy since the outbreak first started.

Both countries have taken unprecedented measures to limit the movement of people in the hope of slowing or even containing the spread of the disease. Even in South Korea, which has put more modest restrictions on the movement of its citizens, pollution appeared to fall.

“It’s the first time in history we’ve seen something like this,” said Marco Percoco, an associate professor of transportation economics at Bocconi University in Milan, referring to the speed and the size of the pollution declines in Italy and China.