The fastest-growing black hole of the last nine billion years discovered.

The black hole consumes the equivalent of one Earth every second.

As a part of the SkyMapper project, an international team led by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU) has found the fastest-growing black hole of the last nine billion years. This rapidly growing black hole is 500 times bigger than the black hole in our Galaxy. It has a mass of three billion suns.

https://www.techexplorist.com/fastest-growing-black-hole-last-nine-billion-years-discovered/48144/

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#CoSoMathematics

Topology

Surfaces So Different Even a Fourth Dimension Can’t Make Them the Same.

For decades mathematicians have searched for a specific pair of surfaces that can’t be transformed into each other in four-dimensional space. Now they’ve found them.

By Kevin Hartnett

https://www.quantamagazine.org/special-surfaces-remain-distinct-in-four-dimensions-20220616/

I don't have any issues with sex workers, but are escorts getting dumber and more expensive?

If I pay you $126K, my version of foreplay is you reading me Atlas Shrugged.

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NASA is setting up a team to look into reports of unidentified aerial phenomena.

Why it matters: There have been about 400 UAP sighting reports, and today, there's congressional and public interest in nailing down exactly what they could be.

A government report last year detailed some of the UAP sightings, concluding that some could be a threat to national security but that there was no evidence that they were caused by aliens.

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/09/nasa-uap-ufo-investigation

Mark Cuban has started a no-insurance online pharmacy, where started an online pharmacy where select medications are available at low cost. He charges a standard 15% markup: for example, a life saving leukemia drug with a typical retail price of $9,657 is offered by him for a total of $47. Insurance isn't accepted because that it would force him to work with manufacturers and require certain price points.

https://costplusdrugs.com/

Love and growth require discernment, not enforcement. This truth demonstrates religion’s problem: mere obedience is sometimes a detour around love.

So I'm going to out myself here on CoSo. I am a former police officer. I need to address the reality of arming teachers. This comes from my level of expertise.

I was given the Distinguished marksman level (the highest, ie I'm a damn good shot)

The reality is 30% of rounds fired by police under stress conditions hit their mark.

Teachers would do worse. They don't train weekly, even monthly like police do. They are not cops. They are teachers and heroes.

@giri_ram I found it with my second husband. We were soulmates and best friends. We clicked almost from the moment we met. I was his heartbeat, and he was mine. We were devoted to each other and still held hands 16 years after we got married. He knew I would be okay on my own, but he wouldn't have wanted to live if I died first. I miss him.

My brain is mush. It makes even simple tasks feel monumental. Hopefully just one more day of this and then I can take a break. #sendcoffeepls

i don't know how to filter all the sports out of my feed. but i honestly know nothing about baseball...but can tell a post about it. i know very little about hockey...but see the posts about it.

i do start reading b/c it's not obvious stats & scores. & then it dawns on me & i can't unsee what i've just seen. sigh.