A team of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover the most distant and oldest black hole ever seen as it feasts upon its host galaxy. The discovery could be a massive step forward in understanding how supermassive black holes reached masses equivalent to millions of billions of times that of […]
Milwaukee’s Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church is one of 31 historically Black churches selected as a recipient of a Preserving Black Churches grant by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. The $4 million investment seeks to maintain the cultural history of Black churches across the United States by equipping them with funding to address […]
This is an article from Curious Kids, a series aimed at children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky! This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Jaclyn Champagne, postdoctoral […]
NASA scientists have observed a stunning cosmic fossil that was created when a supermassive black hole erupted over 5 million years ago. The team at the space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center used the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) space telescope with help from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to spot the X-rays that outline cold gas clouds in […]
State-sanctioned slavery existed in what became the United States for 246 years. Ten of the nation’s first 12 presidents enslaved Black people, including one who engaged in slave trading from the Oval Office. Enslaved people — both in the North and the South — helped build our nation and were a foundation of the 18th […]
Amid growing divisions and conflict around the world, unity and peace was the theme of the 27th annual MLK Day celebration in West Hartford. Similar celebrations of Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and messages were held across Connecticut and the nation to commemorate the slain civil rights leader’s 95th birthday. “You have just been enrolled […]
Ukraine has used sea drones to attack Russia’s Black Sea fleet. It’s now able to fit them with missiles enabling them to fire at ships, it says. Ukraine has had to improvise to offset Russia’s naval superiority. Ukraine claims it has fitted the floating drones it is using to devastate Russia’s Black Sea fleet with […]
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – A volcano that erupted in southwest Iceland for the second time in less than a month appeared to be significantly less active on Monday despite indications of magma still flowing underground. “A black day” read the front page headline of Icelandic daily Morgunbladid across an image of bright-orange lava fountains and houses […]
J. Marion Sims has gone down in history as the “Father of Modern Gynecology.” Many of his medical achievements came at the cost of the health and well-being of enslaved Black women. He performed surgical experiments on enslaved Black women, often without the use of anesthesia. In 2018, after a series of protests, New York […]
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A popular Tampa Bay area tradition going back more than twenty years returned, kicking off in downtown Tampa. The sounds of Dee Goodson’s acoustic guitar filled the air in Curtis Hixon Park to celebrate the annual Black Heritage Festival. Florida city named on New York Times’ top travel destinations list “Well, […]
A grand jury has indicted a white Alabama former police officer for the fatal shooting of a Black man outside his home after the cop had been called to monitor a dispute between the man and a repossession agent. The grand jury determined that the evidence presented by Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson was […]
A Black creator on TikTok has started a conversation about what it means to be Black after responding to a comment that he found offensive. Christian Divyne (@xiandivyne) posted a video on Jan. 8 that addressed a comment in which someone told him he looks as if he was “adopted by a white family with […]