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The Event Horizon Telescope, a collection of telescopes around the world, can now capture data on the supermassive black hole M87* in a new frequency. This is a composite simulated image of three different wavelengths. A view like this would give a more detailed, and nuanced, look at the supermassive black hole.
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The Event Horizon Telescope Just Made a Major Breakthrough — Black Holes Can Now Be Seen in ‘Color Vision’

The team behind the first ever image of a black hole can now observe the same celestial gargantuan with greater definition than ever before.

On Tuesday, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team announced that their global network of radio telescopes, which turns Earth into one giant virtual telescope, can observe at a new radio frequency. This means a few things. First, the team can get crisper imagery of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87, which starred in the first ever image of a black hole, taken in 2017 and published in 2019. Second, having an additional frequency means the team can play with color.

“This new ‘color vision’ allows us to tease apart the effects of Einstein’s gravity from the hot gas and magnetic fields that feed the black holes and launch powerful jets that stream over galactic distances,” Sheperd “Shep” Doeleman, astrophysicist and Founding Director of the EHT, said in an announcement published Tuesday.

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'Star Wars Outlaws' lovingly crafts an engrossing galactic open world that's a joy to explore, but it gets bogged down under some trite design and gameplay ideas.
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Star Wars Outlaws Is a Stunning Galaxy to Explore — When the Game Lets You

Thousands of credits weighed heavy in my pocket after sneaking into Jabba the Hutt’s territory to steal vital info for another syndicate. I could buy new clothes, weapon parts, anything I wanted. Instead, I spied a street vendor on the corner and decided to get some grub for my fuzzy four-legged companion Nix. The resulting rhythm minigame can only be described as the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.

Star Wars Outlaws is a momentous occasion – the first true open-world video game the series has ever seen. That fact alone puts a lot of expectations on Outlaws, and the open-world element is by far the most fascinating aspect of the game. Outlaws breaks from the formulaic tradition of most Ubisoft open-world games, instead squarely putting the focus on exploration and immersion. The game is at its best when these elements come together for unforgettable moments like blazing across grassy hills on your speeder as thugs chase you out of their base, making it through a nail-biting shootout after your infiltration into an Imperial base goes wrong, or saving a suave but inept Crimson Dawn agent who locked himself in a room aboard a space station.

Outlaws’ exploration so often leads to wonder and joy, but it's contrasted by other elements that fall flat — rote and generic quest design, frustrating stealth, and an underbaked crime syndicate system. This is a game that wants you to constantly feel immersed and soak up every second in the Star Wars universe, but it too often breaks that immersion with its own problems. Despite those complaints, Outlaws is one of the most stunning representations of Star Wars we’ve ever seen, at least visually, and a game that I learned to love, warts and all.

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