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By Martin Coulter LONDON Meta, the company behind social media giants Facebook and Instagram, has launched its new

By Aditya Soni Meta's Threads could quickly become a major threat to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, thanks to its

The Venice Film Festival is serving up one of the year’s buzzier films as its opening night selection in Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers.”

MILAN Details of how billionaire Italian tycoon Silvio Berlusconi divided up his assets have been made public on

Tom Hayes, the former UBS Group AG and Citigroup Inc. trader who became the face of the Libor

London police say seven children and two adults were injured after a car crashed into an elementary school on a very narrow road in Wimbledon in southwest London

Astronomers have spotted the moment a black hole "turned on". While looking for the collision of a neutron star with another object, which should result in a kilonova (an explosion which reddens then fades over time), they stumbled upon an event which remained extremely bright. They soon worked out this light was because of supermassive black hole called J221951-484240 which had been on for around 10 months. But then they had to work out what had caused it, and got stuck between two causes, “J221951 is consistent with being nuclear, so the scenarios we are being left are a tidal disruption event or an active galactic nucleus,” lead author Dr Samantha Oates said as she presented the research at the National Astronomy Meeting 2023. “Looking at the spectrum it's consistent with both categories.” Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter A tidal disruption event (TDE) takes place when a star or a gas cloud gets too close to a supermassive black hole. The material is ripped apart, and begins to shine as the black hole feeds Alternatively, it could be an active galactic nucleus (AGN), the phase of a supermassive black hole where it is consistently feeding in a frenzy. “We hope in future to distinguish between these two scenarios,” Dr Oates concluded. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped in Baghdad by a Shia militia, Israeli officials say.

The will of one of Italy's richest men gives control to his two eldest children.

Tens of thousands of people have packed the town hall square in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona to celebrate the traditional “chupinazo” firework blast that starts the San Fermín bull-running festival

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived on a one-day visit to Bulgaria as the Balkan country’s new government looks

A car has crashed into an elementary school in Wimbledon, southwest London, according to the city's Metropolitan Police force, who have described it as a "serious collision."