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Being a partner to a Hollywood star is not always glamorous, but Keith Urban is winging the weird aspects just fine. The 56-year-old is married to Nicole Kidman, who takes her job very seriously and has done erotic scenes in the past. Her recent film, Babygirl, alongside Antonio Banderas and Harris Dickinson, featured her most intense scenes so far, one starts to wonder how Urban feels about them. She even admitted to orgasming so much while filming they had to pause. Keith Urban has no problem with Nicole Kidman’s sex scenes and shares how to cope Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman / ImageCollect While viewers see sex scenes, Urban sees art and appreciates his wife’s work. A source revealed that he is able to separate Nicole from her characters, saying those scenes are simply part of the stories being told. Urban has learned not to see her as his wife in those moments but as an actress. The couple ensure to keep these movies away from their teenage children Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret, because Nicole wants them to view her as mum and nothing overboard for now. Being a supportive husband, Urban keeps Nicole’s schedule in mind during busy seasons such as these. Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban / ImageCollect Nicole Kidman gets candid about filming ‘Babygirl’ Babygirl will debut in US cinemas this Christmas, featuring Nicole as a married CEO who begins a steamy affair with her young intern. Nicole said shooting with Banderas brought mixed feelings like trust and frustration, and she called for a halt at some point. Nicole Kidman / Everett She described some scenes as liberating, while other moments brought burnout such that she snapped at her costar. It is not Nicole’s first rodeo with raunchy scenes, though she claims this is her most X-rated one yet. She did Paperboy with Zac Efron over a decade ago and then A Family Affair just last year. Next up: Cher Is Trying To Reconcile With Her Kids As Her Controversial Relationship Comes To A Head The post Keith Urban Shares Hack For Coping With Nicole Kidman’s Erotic Movie Scenes appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Peace A

Former actress and model Brigitte Bardot reclined to a life of privacy in the late’70s, after two-decade decades in the spotlight. Years after being a sex symbol with an appearance that met beauty standards, Bardot gained weight and started to live as a shadow of herself. She has also gotten on the wrong side of the public multiple times for being racist and discrediting the #MeToo movement, which highlighted the prevalence of sexual violence against women. At 90, Bardot now lives in her St. Tropez house, where she is holed up most of the time. Brigitte Bardot is aging terribly             View this post on Instagram                         A post shared by Brigitte Bardot (@brigittebardotpage)   A source revealed that Bardot has aged into a grumpy old person whose behavior scares people from even walking by her house. She also looks unrecognizable from her heyday as she now sports a natural look, showing her wrinkles and greying hair. The insider added that Bardot is still very far right in her thinking and would not let a moment to argue about her perspectives pass her by. In 2021, she got slammed with a $23,100 fine for writing a bigoted letter in 2019 about native Indian Ocean islanders. Calling the Hindu-Tamil group cannibals was not her first rodeo, and she was taken to court for being racist towards Muslims. Brigitte Bardot/Instagram More shocking truths from Brigitte Bardot While Bardot’s last days are very concerning, she refuses to do anything for herself, like dying her hair, going under the knife, and wearing makeup. She now considers the likes of the Kardashian sisters phonies for trying to look perfect. Brigitte Bardot/Instagram She made remarks against the anti-sexual violence trend, saying she has never been a victim and considered compliments about her looks nice. Despite the disappointing decline in her life, Bardot is still an animal rights activist with multiple feats to her name and millions invested in rescuing pets. Next up: Jodie Sweetin Takes A Stand In Chaotic New Campaign Ad The post 90-Year-Old Brigitte Bardot Has Fans Concerned Due To Recent Appearance And Hygiene appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Peace A

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Remember that amazing “first image” of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A) black hole at the heart of the Milky Way? Well, it may not be completely accurate, according to researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). Instead, the accretion disk around Sgr A* may be more elongated, rather than the circular shape we first saw in 2022. Scientists at NAOJ applied different analysis methods to the data of Sgr A* first taken by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team. The EHT data came from a network of eight ground-based radio telescopes. The original analysis showed a bright ring structure surrounding a dark central region. The re-analysis resulting in a different shape implies something about the motions and distribution of matter in the disk. In fairness to both teams, radio interferometry data is notoriously complex to analyze. According to NAOJ astronomer Miyoshi Mikato, the rounded appearance may be due to the way the image was constructed. “We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT’s imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, rather than the actual astronomical structure,” Miyoshi suggested. This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. A reanalysis of EHT data by NAOJ scientists suggests its accretion disk may be more elongated than circular. Credit: EHT Explaining the Black Hole Appearance So, what does Sgr A* look like in the NAOJ re-analysis? “Our image is slightly elongated in the east-west direction, and the eastern half is brighter than the western half,” said Miyoshi. “We think this appearance means the accretion disk surrounding the black hole is rotating at about 60 percent of the speed of light.” The accretion disk is filled with superheated material “circling the drain” as it were. It’s funneling into the 4-million-solar-mass black hole. As it cycles through the accretion disk, friction and the action of magnetic fields heat the material. That causes it to glow, mostly in x-rays and visible light as well as giving off radio emissions. Various factors also influence the shape of the accretion disk, including the spin of the black hole itself. In addition, the accretion rate (that is, how much material falls into the disk), as well as the angular momentum of the material, all affect the shape. The gravitational pull of the black hole also distorts our view of the accretion disk. That sort of “funhouse mirror” distortion makes it incredibly difficult to image. As it turns out, either view of the disk’s actual shape—the original EHT “circular” view or the NAOJ elongated view—could be accurate. So, Why the Different Views of the Black Hole? How did the teams come up with two slightly different views of Sgr A* using the same data? “No telescope can capture an astronomical image perfectly,” Miyoshi pointed out. For the EHT observations, it turns out that interferometric data from the widely linked telescopes can have gaps. During data analysis, scientists have to use special techniques to construct a complete image. That’s what the EHT team did, resulting in the “round black hole” image. Miyoshi’s team published a paper describing their results. In it, they propose that the “ring” structure in the 2022 image released by EHT is an artifact caused by the bumpy point-spread function (PSF) of the EHT data. The PSF describes how an imaging system deals with a point source in the region it’s looking at. It helps give a measure of the amount of blurring that occurs because of imperfections in the optics (or in this case, the gaps in the interferometric data). In other words, it had problems with “filling” in the gaps. The NAOJ team reanalyzed the data and used a different mapping method to smooth over the gaps in the data. That resulted in an elongated shape for the Sgr A* accretion disk. One-half of the disk is brighter and they suggest it’s due to a Doppler boost as the disk rotates rapidly. They suggest that the newly analyzed data and elongated image shows a portion of the disk that lies a few Schwarzschild radii away from the black hole, rotating extremely fast, and viewed from an angle of 40°-45°. What’s Next? This reanalysis should help contribute to a better understanding of what the Sgr A* accretion disk actually looks like. The EHT study of Sgr A* resulting in the 2022 image release was the first detailed attempt to map the region around the black hole. The EHT consortium is working on improvements to produce better and more detailed interferometry images of this and other black holes. Eventually, that should result in more accurate views. Follow-up studies should help fill in any gaps in the observations of the accretion disk. In addition, detailed studies of the near environment around the black hole should give more clues to the black hole hidden inside the disk. I For More Information First Picture of Milky Way Black Hole ‘May Not Be Accurate’An Independent Hybrid Imaging of Sgr A* from the Data in EHT 2017 Observations The post The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Photo Might Need a Retake appeared first on Universe Today.

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