There’s a lot going on in the center of our galaxy. The core of the Milky Way is home to a supermassive black hole as massive as 4 million Suns named Sagittarius A *, and the surrounding environment is intense. Blowing from this region is a nuclear galactic wind. It …
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About 15,000 light-years away, an active black hole periodically appears to illuminate another unremarkable cloud of gas with gamma rays. But there is a catch. The gas cloud is about 100 light-years from the black hole – and just how the cloud pulsates with it in time is a mystery. …
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Two years out of college, Leah Sanders made as much as $ 19,000 a month using oil wells in Kuwait. After being fired in May by oilfield giant Schlumberger Ltd., she returned with her parents to Tennessee, earning $ 15 an hour to help with her father’s construction business. She …
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If COVID has one thing in solidarity, it is that playing the market must be democratic. And as always in a democracy, people get what they deserve: that means we see tons of amateur investors in the market, skewing sentiment away from foundations. A large portion of that falls on …
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Investors had braced themselves for the bad news for Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., and their fears were confirmed on Friday when both power companies reported second-quarter results that showed sharp declining sales and losses amid economic destruction caused by the coronavirus. Exxon XOM, -0.58% reported an adjusted loss …
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