This article was originally published in Michigan Advance. On average, Black children in Michigan are far behind their peers across the country when it comes to a number of criteria, including graduating high school on time, completing an associate’s degree and fourth-grade reading proficiency. In fact, that was true of every benchmark measured in […]
Jan. 18—CHEYENNE — Black Hills Energy announced Wednesday that its natural gas service base rates will go up effective Feb. 1. According to a news release, residential customers with an average energy use will see a monthly increase of approximately $7.26, an 8.09% increase, and small general customers, mostly businesses that use more energy, will […]
Astronomers have discovered a mystery object in the Milky Way that is more massive than the heaviest neutron star but lighter than the smallest black hole. The mystery body could help scientists better determine where to draw the dividing line between neutron stars and black holes, both born when a massive star dies. “Either possibility […]
ATLANTA — A growing number of Black voters are weighing options for 2024 other than the two major-party candidates — a serious problem for Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to seize on that opening. The third-party presidential candidate — who recently defended his father’s decision to authorize the surveillance of […]
A team of international scientists led by the University of Cambridge used images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory to discover the oldest black hole ever observed, dating to just 400 million years after the Big Bang. In findings published Monday in the journal Nature, researchers note the surprisingly massive […]
The black rhino is one of the rarest animals on the African continent — but it wasn’t always. At the beginning of the 20th century, there may have been a million black rhinos across Africa. Learn more about this unique species and the conservation efforts underway to save it. About Black Rhinos The black rhinoceros […]
Each year from Feb. 1 to March 1, Black History Month is recognized in the U.S. Set aside to commemorate the many contributions and accomplishments of Black Americans, the observation provides an opportunity to spotlight the sacrifices, heritage and luminaries that helped shape our country’s history. What initially began as a week near a century […]
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 […]