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Scientists believe that black holes store a mysterious form of energy that drives the accelerated expansion of the universe, reports Phys. Astrophysicists used the DESI instrument installed on the telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in the United States and found that black holes and the mysterious dark energy are inextricably linked. Although this is only an assumption that still needs to be confirmed, it nevertheless brings scientists closer to uncovering the mystery of dark energy. The study was published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 13.8 billion years ago, in the first moments after the Big Bang, a mysterious energy triggered the accelerated expansion of the universe. As a result, matter as we know it was created. This energy is believed to have had the same characteristics as dark energy in the modern universe, which is responsible for the accelerated expansion of space. Although dark energy makes up about 70% of the universe, astrophysicists are not exactly sure what it is. Scientists used DESI to look for evidence that dark energy could be stored inside black holes. To do this, they observed tens of millions of galaxies and how quickly they were moving away from each other. They also used this data to infer how the amount of dark energy changed over time. Astrophysicists compared this data with how many black holes have formed after the death of massive stars throughout the history of the Universe. It turned out that the amount of dark energy increased as new black holes appeared. Thus, scientists came to the conclusion that most likely black holes are the source of dark energy. According to scientists, the same strong gravity in the modern Universe as in its beginning exists only in the center of black holes. Perhaps what happened in the first stage of the Universe’s expansion is happening in reverse. That is, during the death of massive stars, when they turn into black holes as a result of gravitational compression, the Big Bang occurs, but in reverse. Astrophysicists say that if black holes store dark energy, they could merge and grow with the expanding universe, causing the cosmos to expand faster. It’s impossible to see this happening directly, but now there’s evidence that it’s happening, scientists say. The new data supports the hypothesis about what dark energy is because its increase over time is consistent with how the number and mass of black holes have also increased. The post Physicists Discover Link Between Black Holes and Dark Energy appeared first on Anomalien.com.

The Treasury Department has released the receipts for federal spending in fiscal year 2024, revealing staggering numbers. While the $1.8 trillion deficit may seem less alarming than a $2.3 trillion shortfall, the Treasury accounted for an extra $500 billion in deficits in the opening days of fiscal year 2025 to achieve that figure. Regardless, neither the Federal Reserve nor the Treasury Department can escape the impact of these numbers. We have now reached a point where permanent stagflation seems unavoidable.The Treasury Department’s final tab for fiscal 2024 shows a $1.83 trillion deficit, setting a near record aside from the unusual pandemic years of 2020-2021. This means the government borrowed $5 billion per day — the equivalent of the FBI’s entire annual budget a generation ago. In the third quarter of this calendar year (the final quarter of fiscal 2024), the deficit equaled 6.3% of GDP, a level only surpassed during World War II and the COVID-19 pandemic.Republicans have failed to convey to the public that the government spending they rely on comes at a painful cost.Despite relatively low unemployment and the absence of a world war, the government took in a record $4.918 trillion in revenue but still amassed a mammoth deficit. This gap is poised to grow in the new fiscal year, meaning that when a recession officially hits, the deficit could become colossal. Although the government collected $479 billion more in revenue than last year, it increased the deficit by spending an additional $617 billion. Imagine what the deficit might look like if revenue starts to decline.In the past, we shrugged off such news, dismissing it as mere red ink on a spreadsheet. But that was when annual interest on the debt cost only $200 billion. Now, we’re on track to spend a record $1.133 trillion — or nearly a quarter of our tax revenue — just on interest. Debt interest is now more costly than every government expense except Social Security, contributing to the crippling inflation consumers face. We’re no longer mortgaging our grandchildren’s future; we’re destroying our own.To cover this interest, the government must sell a record number of treasury bonds each month. With countries reducing their holdings of U.S. Treasuries and buying gold instead, treasury yields are rising unnaturally. Despite a drop in the federal funds rate, rising spending and the resulting debt service push yields higher. This shift has caused gold and treasury yields to surge simultaneously — a rare occurrence, as they typically move inversely. It’s also why the 30-year fixed mortgage rate has climbed nearly a full percent since the Federal Reserve cut rates by 50 basis points. T. Rowe Price forecasts that the 10-year Treasury yield could hit 5% over the next six months, approaching levels seen in late 2007 on the eve of the Great Recession.When yields go up, debt servicing costs increase further, and the Fed has to print even more money to cover both the rollover debt and rapidly accumulating new debt — rising faster this year than last. Under this baseline scenario, inflation is bound to worsen. The global money supply now stands at $89.7 trillion, up by $22 trillion since COVID. After shrinking in 2022-2023, M2 is now expanding rapidly and is currently 38% higher than pre-COVID levels. Consumers are already struggling with high prices, and every market indicator signals a new round of even higher costs.Consumers have exhausted their resources ahead of an impending financial collapse, spending $2.3 trillion in excess savings over the past three years to cope with the cost of living. Currently, cumulative excess savings are negative $216 billion, with U.S. credit card debt and interest rates at record highs.Even without the threat of hyperinflation, these economic indicators always precede a crash. The unprecedented rallies in gold and silver are clear warnings, signaling grave danger. They indicate that the Federal Reserve, in its attempts to curb recession and inflation while printing money recklessly, has lost control, leaving us to face the consequences of both.Republicans have failed to convey to the public that the government spending they rely on comes at a painful cost. It’s not just the $103,700 in debt that each American is responsible for in some distant future. It’s the additional tens of thousands they will pay each year to maintain their parents’ standard of living for the rest of their lives — and that’s assuming things don’t get worse.

Trepang2 taps into something that a lot of FPS games either neglect or don’t recognize as being important: terror. Through the sheer volume of the guns and the fierce screams and barks of your enemies, Trepang2 makes you feel vulnerable. You spend the early levels burrowed into a corner, trying to stave off a panic attack as the walls explode around you. Later, the dynamic is flipped. You become the terror, and what’s scary about Trepang2 is the amount of bodies you stack up, and the gratuitous gore that bursts forth from every one. Inspired by the superlative FEAR, Trepang2 is better than Doom Eternal, Titanfall 2, and most of the other modern FPS darlings. If you’ve never tried it, now’s the time. Continue reading Now is the perfect time to play Trepang2, the greatest FPS to hit PC in years MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best horror games, Best FPS games, Best PC Classics

A lot of extraction shooters rely on ultra-realistic military aesthetics. Arena Breakout Infinite, Gray Zone Warfare, and the ever-present Escape From Tarkov all lean on authenticity, but that’s not all the genre has to offer. Combining the dark, depressing dystopia of the Metro series and the large-scale mechs of Armored Core 6, The Forever Winter is different. Ecological collapse, military conflict, and human-machine hybrids meander on the surface of a destroyed world, and you need to gather what you can to try and stay alive. If you want to try the tense extraction shooter, thankfully, there's a new demo. Continue reading New survival extraction shooter The Forever Winter gets a tense, grimdark demo MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best horror games, Best co-op games, Best survival games

What are the best The Witcher 3 settings for PC? Thanks to regular updates over the past few years, including the major next-gen graphical update, The Witcher 3 has never looked better on PC, but getting the best out of it will still require a little messing around in the settings menus. It won't take the best graphics card to get maximum fps out of The Witcher 3, but refining your settings to maximize the performance of your hardware is key. Continue reading Best Witcher 3 settings for max fps MORE FROM PCGAMESN: The Witcher 3 mods, The Witcher 4 news, Witcher 3 system requirements

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