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Astronomers have detected a weird black hole that is causing its galactic host to wobble like a top in the throes of “direct collapse” in the earliest phase of creation in the universe. The unique thing about this object is where it is located: between a pair of colliding galaxies, not in the nucleus of either one. That bizarre orientation suggests that instead of forming from a dying star’s wreckage, the black hole might have formed from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust — something researchers had long suspected was possible but nobody had ever seen.JWST Uncovers Rare Black…
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is usually known as a frozen “ice giant.” But in July 2025 astronomers announced a big surprise: Uranus is actually emitting more heat than it receives from sunlight. Decades of data and new models show Uranus emits about 12% more internal heat than it gets from the Sun. This contradicts measurements from NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986, which had found almost no internal warmth. The finding suggests Uranus is still cooling off from its formation. For scientists, this warm surprise has revived interest in exploring the distant world. An internal heat source…
The Parker Solar Probe has truly achieved a historic milestone in solar exploration. In July 2025, NASA released the closest-ever images of the Sun, taken just 3.8 million miles from its surface. On Dec. 24, 2024, Parker flew 3.8 million miles from the Sun’s surface, entering the outer corona. During this pass, Parker’s Wide-Field Imager (WISPR) snapped the nearest-ever photographs of the Sun, showing the Sun’s corona and the solar wind in unprecedented detail. These images reveal new solar eruptions (coronal mass ejections) and magnetic structures, transporting us into the Sun’s dynamic atmosphere and helping scientists improve space weather forecasts.Historic…
‘Time for us to leave’: German legal insurer Arag set to exit Australia market July 18 2025 by Roshan Nambiar Legal insurer Arag, the sole shareholder of Arag Services Australia (Arag Australia), will withdraw from the Australian market after nearly six years, according to a press release.The company said th… To continue reading the full article and get full access to the InsuranceAsia News platform, please enquire about a subscription. Your company may already have a corporate license in place. Already a Subscriber? Please Login Join the mailing list Designed to help you stay ahead, our daily newsletter provides a…
Delivering a fresh jolt to a field recently rocked by controversy, astrophysicists have discovered the most massive collision yet of a pair of black holes that created another black hole, an event so powerful that it shook the universe in ripples of gravitational waves. Named GW231123, the event was detected on 23 November 2023 by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration during its fourth observing run. That event was two huge black holes — 100 and 140 times the mass of the Sun — slamming into one another to create a new black hole of 225 solar masses. The mass alone and…
China has launched a new resupply mission to its module and the astronauts and space station to which it is connected in orbit above the Earth, sending food, fuel, scientific gear, and updated spacesuits. The Long March 7 rocket, taking it aloft, took off from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre on Hainan Island at 5:34 p.m. EDT July 14 (5:34 a.m. China Standard Time July 15), carrying the Tianzhou 9 cargo spacecraft. The vehicle is carrying about 7.2 tons (6.5 metric tons) of supplies to support the three taikonauts currently on the station for the ongoing Shenzhou 20 crewed mission.China…
Crawford confirms Tony Chapman as new head of global technical services for Asia July 18 2025 by Andrew Mullen Crawford has announced the appointment of Tony Chapman as its new head of global technical services for Asia, with immediate effect, confirming an earlier exclusive from InsuranceAsia News. In the ro… To continue reading the full article and get full access to the InsuranceAsia News platform, please enquire about a subscription. Your company may already have a corporate license in place. Already a Subscriber? Please Login Join the mailing list Designed to help you stay ahead, our daily newsletter provides a round-up…
In a recent paper published online, researchers have reported the transverse Thomson effect’s first experimental observation. It is a key thermoelectric phenomenon that has made scientists avoid it since it was predicted almost a century ago. Physicists have observed thermoelectric effects to understand the connection between heat and electricity on the basis of the Peltier, Seebeck and Thomson effects studied during the 1800s. The Thomson effect includes heating or cooling during the flow of electric current and a temperature gradient towards the same direction through a conductor.How Scientists Isolated the Elusive Transverse Thomson EffectAs per phys org, Scientists found the…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, together with data from the Hubble Space Telescope, has revealed a “baby” exoplanet rapidly losing its atmosphere. The planet, named TOI 1227 b, orbits a faint red dwarf star and is only about 8 million years old. Powerful X-ray blasts from the star are stripping away the planet’s thick gas envelope. Models indicate TOI 1227 b is shedding an amount of gas equal to Earth’s entire atmosphere every ~200 years. The team notes the planet’s atmosphere “simply cannot withstand the high X-ray dose it’s receiving”. This finding offers a rare, real-time look at atmospheric erosion, showing…
Seadrif, Gallagher Re pioneer multi-peril parametric sovereign disaster risk policy for Laos July 18 2025 by Andrew Mullen The Government of Lao PDR has signed a new two-year, multi-peril parametric sovereign disaster risk insurance policy with Seadrif Insurance, structured and placed by Gallagher Re.The policy, which ex… To continue reading the full article and get full access to the InsuranceAsia News platform, please enquire about a subscription. Your company may already have a corporate license in place. Already a Subscriber? Please Login MORE FROM: Reinsurance brokers Join the mailing list Designed to help you stay ahead, our daily newsletter provides…