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Both the Milky Way and a galaxy known as M87 have supermassive black holes at their core. These are the two largest black holes we know about and the Event Horizon Telescope has just captured stunning images of their event horizons. A new paper looks at what we might expect from a next generation EHT and highlights twelve targets that should be top of the list.  The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is an international collaboration that uses a global network of radio telescopes. Connecting multiple telescopes together in a technique known as interferometry enables them all to work together, forming one massive virtual telescope the size of the distance between them. In April 2019, the EHT achieved a historic milestone by capturing the first-ever image of a black hole, located at the centre of the galaxy M87. The ALMA array in Chile. Once ALMA was added to the Event Horizon Telescope, it increased the EHT’s power by a factor of 10. Image: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), O. Dessibourg Black holes like that in M87 are most definitely the target of the EHT. They are regions in space with such a strong gravitational forces that nothing, not even light, can escape. They are formed from the remnants of massive stars that collapse under their own gravity, creating an object known as a singularity which has infinite density. Surrounding the singularity is the event horizon, beyond which no information or matter can return and it is this which is of particular interest to EHT. Several extensions to the array are planned to enhance the quality of images. Doing so will improve its resolution allowing for a larger number of black holes to be studied. Theoretical studies of EHT images of both Sgr A at the centre of our Galaxy and the black hole at the centre of M87 favour models with dynamically significant magnetic fields. Magnetically arrested disk (MAD) models, which power jet mechanisms, have important implications for the relationship between supermassive black holes and the evolution of its host galaxy. The extensions require new dishes to be added to the infrastructure and many of existing telescopes require upgrades. On completion, simultaneous observations in the frequency range 86-230-345 GHz will be possible, facilitating new studies.  In the paper authored by Xinyue Alice Zhang from the Center for Astrophysics at the Harvard & Smithsonian and team they report upon their attempt to study the 12 most promising supermassive black hole targets for the EHT.  The targets were honed in on following an exhaustive analysis which started off with the ETHER database, a list of 3.8 million sources. This was then narrowed down to those with a flux density (signal strength) that allowed mass measurements to be taken optically. A fair chunk of this was done by hand! Further sources with large angular sizes are being constantly added to the database so the number of possible targets will rise in time.  The target galaxies identified to date include; IC1459, NGC45elliptical94, NGC3998, NGC4261, NGC2663, NGC3894, M84, NGC4552, 3C 317, NGC315, NGC1218 and NGC5077. These are all suitable for future EHT targets but they all exhibit some similarities for example many of them are elliptical galaxies but a few are classed as lenticular galaxies. Source : Accessing a New Population of Supermassive Black Holes with Extensions to the Event Horizon Telescope The post What’s Next for the Event Horizon Telescope? Twelve Possible New Targets appeared first on Universe Today.

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Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain - Rupert Sheldrake - 271,626 views June 11, 2024 Rupert Sheldrake via After Skool - In this episode Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and author, debunks the standard view that the mind is nothing but brain activity and argues that our mind is extended in every act of visual perception. Rupert has designed an app to enable you to test your sensitivity to being looked at from behind, and to find out if you can improve with practice. The test takes just a few minutes to complete. https://www.sheldrake.org/participate . If you find you or your partner can indeed improve with practice, scoring repeatedly and fairly reliably above 75%, please let us know by email at sheldrake@sheldrake.org For more information about Rupert Sheldrake's research, visit https://www.sheldrake.org/ This talk was part of the 2023 Holberg Debate at the University of Bergen with the neuroscientist Anil Seth and the anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann. The full debate can be seen here:    • Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brai...   Thank you! - FAIR USE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES -Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain - Rupert Sheldrake - 271,626 views June 11, 2024 Rupert Sheldrake via After Skool - In this episode Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and author, debunks the standard view that the mind is nothing but brain activity and argues that our mind is extended in every act of visual perception. Rupert has designed an app to enable you to test your sensitivity to being looked at from behind, and to find out if you can improve with practice. The test takes just a few minutes to complete. https://www.sheldrake.org/participate . - If you find you or your partner can indeed improve with practice, scoring repeatedly and fairly reliably above 75%, please let us know by email at sheldrake@sheldrake.org - For more information about Rupert Sheldrake's research, visit https://www.sheldrake.org/ - This talk was part of the 2023 Holberg Debate at the University of Bergen with the neuroscientist Anil Seth and the anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann. - The full debate can be seen here:    • Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brai...   Thank you! - FAIR USE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES - MIrrored From: https://www.youtube.com/@AfterSkool

"It may be the most important thing we do in life; learn how to love and be loved."At least, that's according to Harvard psychologist and researcher Rick Weissbourd.He's been collecting data on the sex and love habits of young people for years through surveys, interviews, and even informal conversation — with teens and the important people in their lives.Through it all, one thing has been abundantly clear:"We spend enormous amount of attention helping parents prepare their kids for work and school," Weissbourd says. "We do almost nothing to prepare them for the tender, tough, subtle, generous, focused work of developing mature healthy relationships. I'm troubled by that."Now he and his team have finally compiled five years of intense research that asks the question, "What do young people really think about sex and love?"And maybe just as important: "How should we be preparing them?"Here are three major takeaways from the groundbreaking new report:1. Hookup culture might just be a big ol' myth.Everybody's hooking up with everybody these days, right? Not so fast.The Harvard report presents a startling statistic from a related study in 2008. A group of college students in the U.S. were asked what percentage of guys on campus they thought had sex on any given weekend. They guessed about 80%. The reality? As low as 5%.Weissbourd notes that because hookups are so culturally visible (especially in college) and gossiped about, it creates a perception that they're a lot more common than they actually are.The Harvard study itself found, in fact, that most young people are a lot more interested in sex within a committed relationship or, shockingly(!), things that don't involve sex at all.What it means for parents: We as adults, unfortunately, play a big role in this pervasive and harmful myth. "In every era there've been complaints about how sexually out of control kids are," Weissbourd says. "It's a story adults really love to tell."When we play up this stereotype, the study finds it can actually make young people less likely to seek advice or to talk about sex and relationships because they may feel inadequate or embarrassed about their lack of experience.2. Sexual harassment and assault, however, remain huge, unaddressed problems."There are a significant number of young men out there who think that all they can't do is rape someone," Weissbourd says. "They can't drag someone in an alley to rape them."What many of them have very little concept of, he says, is how harmful and dangerous behaviors like catcalling, pressuring, and coercion can be.The study cites endless instances of girls being harassed at school, complaining to administration, staging walkouts; anything to get the problem addressed. But the "boys will be boys" attitude persists, and problems are often swept under the rug rather than tackled head-on.A culture of sexual violence is harmful for obvious reasons, but the report also found these kinds of attitudes can bleed over into relationships that can "disproportionately involve females servicing males."What it means for parents: Talk. to. your. kids. about. consent."I was really surprised how many parents had not had basic conversations with their kids about things like consent, or how to avoid sexually harassing a person," Weissbourd says.We have to make it crystal clear to young people what kinds of behavior are and aren't acceptable, and follow up those lines with real consequences. It's the only way things are ever going to change.3. Teens and young adults want more guidance than we're giving them.Most parents aren't thrilled about having "the talk," and admittedly, bringing up the topic of sex with a teen is no easy task.But with all this dread and hand-wringing over how to talk about the birds and the bees, the Harvard report notes that many parents are overlooking a much bigger topic: love and relationships.Roughly 70% of surveyed young adults reported wishing they had received more or better guidance on the emotional aspects of relationships, both from parents or from health class. But it's not just a hindsight thing.Many parents are overlooking a much bigger topic: love and relationships."The percentage of young people who want guidance on romantic relationships was encouraging," Weissbourd says. "Kids light up when they are talking about love and what love is and what does it mean. That was surprising and really encouraging."What it means for parents: When you're done teaching your teenager how to put a condom on a banana, make sure to spend some time talking about the day-to-day work that goes into building a healthy relationship.That means going beyond platitudes. The Harvard team suggests diving into more complex questions like, What's the difference between attraction, infatuation, and love? How can we be more attracted to people the less interested they are in us? Why can we be attracted to people who are unhealthy for us?Those are questions some of us might not even have the answer to, but having the honest conversation with our kids is a major step in helping them learn how to love and be loved.As Weissbourd says, it's one of the most important things we'll ever do.The full report tackles even more and is jam-packed with must-know findings and statistics. It's definitely worth a read.This article originally appeared on 05.18.17

Recently, blogger Jen Hatmaker had a funny conversation with a friend about parenting:"My girlfriend told me the greatest story. Apparently her 11-year-old also wanted to be a grown up this week and, in fact, not only did he treat his siblings like despised underlings, but when asked what he wanted, he said: 'I want the authority to be in charge of them and tell them what to do, because they deserve it!'Well. My girlfriend and her husband are NOT AT ALL MESSING AROUND with parenting. Calmly, evenly, they granted his request to be a grown-up for a week by pulling him out of camp (the underlings still got to go, because they are 'such children') and sending him to work ALL DAY EVERY DAY with his dad. He has to get up early and shower and make breakfast for everyone. He has to kiss the underlings before he goes to work and tell them to have a great day and that he loves them. He has to work on a typing project during his office hours. He only gets to eat what his dad eats, because eating like a grown-up is not nearly as fun as eating like a kid.Want to be an adult? Fine."Photo via iStock.Hatmaker's post went viral, with thousands of parents chiming in with their own stories of tough love, both giving and receiving.The responses were hilarious, poignant, and a sign that the next generation is being parented by extremely capable, if not a little bit diabolical, hands.Here are five of my favorite stories from the comments about parenting-gone-absolutely-right:1. Jill Duff's mom used an embarrassing outfit to teach her sister an important lesson:"My sister was snotty to my Mom. She called her and pretty much demanded, 'Bring my band uniform to the high school!' She's the one who forgot her uniform in the first place. Then she told my Mom 'Do not come in the school, that would be so EMBARRASSING. Just wait for me by my car.'So my Mom did just that. She stood by my sister's car, in the Texas heat, WEARING my sister's band uniform. All the kids walking out for the day saw it.Parenting GOLD."And Mom was like...2. Jessica Klick got her sons new shoes ... but not the ones they wanted."Our 11 and 12 year olds at the time were complaining and whining and being ungrateful, saying how 'hard their life was.' For boys, the big thing is wearing those cool Steph Curry shoes and our boys LOVE their Currys!So after hearing the last complaint my husband went to Walmart to buy white maypop leather shoes (the kind you see in geriatric centers) and high white socks. He brought those bad boys home, set them on the boys' dresser, and made them wear those things everywhere we went. Those devastated boys told us we were 'ruining their lives.'I may or may not have laughed like a little girl when I dropped them off at school and watched them do the walk of shame."3. Marisa Rodriguez Byers says she wished her mother was dead. And boy, did she regret it."I was a wretched, hormonal teenager. At the age of 13 I told my mom, 'I wish you were dead!' And at that moment, she 'died,' but to me only. (I had younger sisters).She completely ignored me, didn't speak at me, didn't look at me, wouldn't cook for me, set my place at the table, wash my clothes, take me to school, NOTHING. After 8 days, I broke down in the middle of the night, went to her room, clutched her tightly while sobbing how sorry I was and how much I loved her and that I would NEVER say those words again. I'm 41 years old now, I have NEVER uttered those words or anything remotely like them after that incident."After tough love, you gotta hug it out.4. Jessica Hill gave her daughter a good scare — and, in turn, a new appreciation."I was grocery shopping with my three year old when she decided to start screaming for ice cream. There was no reasoning with her in this hulk-type rage. I swear she had super human strength as I struggled to get her out of the cart full of groceries.I was completely unaware of the two police officers who were witnessing this wrestling match. She was still hitting, kicking, and screaming when I was stopped by the police officers in the parking lot. They thought I had abducted her. This happened long before we had smart phones full of our children's photos. They tried questioning her but she was still too busy throwing a fit, so I handed her over. I told them she could ride with them because I really needed a break and they could follow me home to see her birth certificate, baby book, etc. They started chuckling as one officer said, 'Spoken like a true mom!' I think they were more relieved than I was when she finally cried out, 'Mommy?'The officer handed her back to me while the other went back inside the store to ensure there wasn't a distraught mother looking for her missing toddler. That evening my daughter told her dad she almost went to jail because she threw a fit, and I let her believe it. She didn't throw a fit in public again.""Uhh, ma'am?""I didn't mean to scare her, so after this experience, I wanted to ensure my daughter had a healthy respect and appreciation for first responders. Today, I'm happy to say she is highly aware and appreciative of the police, firemen, paramedics, and military personnel who serve to protect her."5. Erica Goodnight taught her son an incredible lesson that he carries to this day."My kid was whining over not having anything to play with. So, without a word, I went to the garage and got a black 50 gallon trash bag and started putting in all the toys that he obviously didn't even realize were in our home to play with.I loaded them AND him into the car and we drove to our local homeless shelter and gave every. single. toy. in the bag away. To a child who TRULY had nothing. And you know what? He didn't even cry. His eyes were opened to the ones who have nothing. He actually enlarged his heart that day. And, we still do it. We still take toys to kids with nothing at least once a year."Parent win. Life lesson score.There's a fine line between teaching your kids a tough lesson in a funny way and engaging in "humiliation parenting."Making children wear a sign that says, "I sneak boys in at 3 a.m. and disrespect my parents and grandparents" or otherwise berating them publicly is a good way to erode trust between the two of you and seriously damage your relationship.But calling their bluff on a ridiculous demand? Or having a little fun with how you choose to correct their bad attitude? That's just plain survival.And that's what parenting is really all about.You can read the whole hilarious exchange over on Facebook.In the meantime, what's your favorite tough-love story?This article originally appeared on 07.13.16