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Hubble's Mysterious X-Shaped Object. Credit: (NASA) http://www.nasa.gov NASA reports that Hubble has captured images of a mysterious X-shaped object thought to be an asteroid following a collision. NASA says that “asteroid collisions are energetic, with an average impact speed of more than 11,000 miles per hour, or five times faster than a rifle bullet.” Source: Gizmodo No, that’s not the lead-in for my next science fiction story, though it sure could be. Instead, this is happening in our lifetimes, in the real world. It involves the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and smashing quarks and gluons together to attempt to create tiny black holes that will exist for barely a moment in [...] |
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