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High-speed baby stars circle the supermassive black hole Sgr A* like a swarm of bees

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Astronomy

High-speed baby stars circle the supermassive black hole Sgr A* like a swarm of bees

Multiwavelength finding chart of the inner ≈0.4 pc of the Galactic center observed in the K-band (red) and L-band (blue) observed with NACO (VLT). Credit: Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449729 Observational astronomy shows that newly discovered young stellar objects (YSOs) in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* located in the center of our galaxy behave differently than expected. They describe similar orbits to already known young evolved stars and are arranged in a particular pattern around the supermassive black hole. Studies show that Sgr A* causes th...

Senate Briefing on The Skinwalker Ranch and AARO’s Sean Kirkpatrick

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UFOs

Senate Briefing on The Skinwalker Ranch and AARO’s Sean Kirkpatrick

The Skinwalker Strikes Back Former AARO boss get clobbered by friendly fire "But the first question we should ask is, why is this guy [Sean Kirkpatrick] still doing press interviews in the first place? Is it vanity? Are there rhetorical or other scores he feels the need to settle with real or imagined antagonists?" Well that interview didn’t go according to script, did it?See, this is what happens when an ostensibly smart guy like Sean Kirkpatrick surrounds himself with hand-picked beat reporters who, in pursuit of access to power and sourcing, swallow each and every pronouncement on faith and refuse to call him out on anything. Like Muhammad Ali, Kirkpatrick should’ve been preparing for the unexpected j...

2008 Movie ‘Acolytes’ and ‘Star Wars’ Fan Film Accidentally Review Bombed by Unhappy People

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Star Wars

2008 Movie ‘Acolytes’ and ‘Star Wars’ Fan Film Accidentally Review Bombed by Unhappy People

The Acolyte has been the subject of a lot of controversy this week. Its latest episode introduced some new lore that potentially contradicts some long-held beliefs among Star Wars fans about the ability to create life with the Force (it likely doesn’t contradict anything and will probably be explained in future episodes, but don’t let that stop some people from getting ahead of themselves). Such has been the uproar that some of the haters have taken to Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB to review bomb The Acolyte — an unfortunate development in modern fandom that doesn’t paint a true picture of what the majority of fans actually feel — with the series currently sitting at a 16% audience score. It still has an 84% rating with critics. However, some overzealous viewers have failed to check what pro...

Section 31’ Actor Teases His “Very Intense” Character, Praises “Hero” Michelle Yeoh – TrekMovie.com

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Star Trek

Section 31’ Actor Teases His “Very Intense” Character, Praises “Hero” Michelle Yeoh – TrekMovie.com

The next live action Star Trek release may be the Section 31 streaming movie. We still don’t know much about the project starring Michelle Yeoh, but now one of the new actors is teasing a bit about his character. A broken soul in Section 31 James Hiroyuki Liao was one of the seven actors announced as part of the cast of Star Trek: Section 31 in January, but with no character descriptions. He is out doing publicity now for a role in the new Apple limited series Presumed Innocent and ScreenRant used the opportunity to talk about Trek. Liao was hesitant to say anything specific but did tease his character: All I can say is that my guy is very, very intense. Without giving anything away, he’s a broken soul, and hurt people hurt people. It sounds like Liao could be playing a bad guy, which t...

SecAF, CSAF sign AFMEDCOM PAD, align with key readiness priorities > United States Space Force > Article Display

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Space Force

SecAF, CSAF sign AFMEDCOM PAD, align with key readiness priorities > United States Space Force > Article Display

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AFNS) -- Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David Allvin postured the Air Force Medical Service to better serve installation commanders and the medical readiness of Airmen and Guardians by signing Program Action Directive 24-01, June 12. The PAD authorizes the formation of the Air Force Medical Command as a direct reporting unit aligned with the Secretary of the Air Force’s readiness priorities and support capabilities lines of effort. Previously, the Air Force Medical Readiness Agency, the AFMS’s former field operating agency, redesignated as Air Force Medical Agency and achieved initial operational capability in October 2023. It served as an initial step toward t...