• Vanta-Who? Off-Black is the New Black

    To the supposed dismay of Brenda Hashtag and consorts, Anna Wintour once famously advised against wearing an all-black get-up. In fact, the latter is somewhat

  • New analysis reveals a tiny black hole repeatedly punching through a larger black hole's disk of gas

    At the heart of a far-off galaxy, a supermassive black hole appears to have had a case of the hiccups. Astronomers from MIT, Italy, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere have found that a previously quiet black hole, which sits at the center of a galaxy about 800 million light years away, has suddenly erupted, giving off plumes of gas every 8.5 days before settling back to its normal, quiet state.

  • Morning Digest: We've got new data for New York's new House map

    The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team. Subscribe to The Downballot, our weekly podcast Embedded Content Leading Off ● New York: With New York's new congressional map now in effect, Daily Kos Elections is rolling out a batch of updates to some of our most frequently used data sets. Up first is our chart of the results of the 2020 presidential election broken down by congressional...

  • Brand new black hole image will blow your mind

    Astronomers released a new image of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A . It reveals the object's twisting magnetic fields.

  • Black Mirror will get six new episodes in 2025

    Black Mirror, the series that eerily foreshadowed our current tech dystopia, is set to return in 2025 for a seventh season, Netflix revealed at its UK Next event. The six-episode run will include a sequel to one of the best-loved episodes, the darkly funny Star Trek spoof USS Callister.  It's light on details, with a Netflix teaser only teasing the 2025 date and sequel episode. "Robert Daly is dead, but for the crew of the USS Callister, their problems are just beginning," the description reads....

  • New Welsh leader 'honored' to be Europe's first Black national leader

    Vaughan Gething won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest on Saturday, and is set to become the first Black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government. Gething, who is currently Welsh economy minister, narrowly beat Education Minister Jeremy Miles in a race to replace First Minister Mark Drakeford. Drakeford announced late last year he would step down once a replacement was chosen. Gething, 50, won 51.7% of the votes cast by members of the party and affiliated trade unions, and Miles 48.3%....

  • New image of supermassive black hole resembles the Eye of Sauron from the Lord Of The Rings

    Scientists captured a new image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A . The team observed strong magnetic fields around the edge of the black hole. READ MORE: Astronomers revealed

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    Two new exhibitions on display at Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia

    RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- The Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia in Richmond has just opened two new exhibitions, both of which highlight the tradition of ceramics as an artistic medium and will be on display through this summer. The first exhibition coincides with the 58th Annual Conference of the National Council on []

  • Among Us Cast Now Includes Alums from Legion, Yellowjackets, and Orange Is the New Black

    The adaptation of the mobile game Among Us has added some additional voices

  • Black South Londoners Develop Superpowers in New Netflix Series ‘Supacell’ Teaser Trailer

    When a group of young Black South Londoners develop superpowers, you can bet things will get interesting reasonably quickly. That’s the gist of Supacell, a new upcoming Netflix series that just dropped the first teaser trailer. Shadow and Act report the series’ cast includes Tosin Cole, former BMF star Eric Kofi Abrefa, Nadine Mills, Calvin […] The post Black South Londoners Develop Superpowers in New Netflix Series ‘Supacell’ Teaser Trailer first appeared on The Source.

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    Why Black Ops' David Vonderhaar doesn't want his new studio Bulletfarm to compete with Call of Duty

    When you’ve made some of the biggest games on the planet, juggling budgets of millions of dollars and selling millions of copies, what comes next?For David Vonderhaar it was nearly a year off in an RV with his dog; but then he decided to do it all again - only on his terms this time around.After stepping away from Treyarch, where he served as multiplayer design director on the legendary Call of Duty: World at War before moving up to studio design director on the subsequent Black Ops franchise,...

  • Russia Gets New Head of Navy After Black Sea Fleet Suffers at Hand of Ukraine

    MOSCOW, March 19 (Reuters) – The new head of Russia’s Navy was formally presented in his new role for the first time on Tuesday at a pomp-filled ceremony, the state RIA news agency reported,