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Knocked Loose: You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To review – hardcore punk’s dark stars go supermassive | Music

Knocked Loose: You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To review – hardcore punk’s dark stars go supermassive | Music

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The previous release from Kentucky metalcore quintet Knocked Loose was 2021’s A Tear in the Fabric of Life, a six-song horror story about a car crash that kills the driver’s partner, sending the driver increasingly mad with grief to the point where they dig up the corpse, have sex with it and then kill themselves to be permanently alongside their former lover. If anything, the follow-up is heavier. A bright node in today’s wonderfully diffuse hardcore punk scene, Knocked Loose formed in 2013 and, via viral shows at US festivals such as Coachella and Bonnaroo that respectively drew kale-enamoured influencers and larky stoners into their circle pits, have built a sizeable buzz. This third album is the glorious sound of a band duly cutting the catapult’s cord and launching themselves into a different league. Onward from the blast beat and lung-emptying roar that kicks off opener Thirst, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To brings together some of the densest elements in music (high-speed kick drums, distorted guitars, glottal screaming) and – in a production …

Supermassive black holes may provide a nursery for mini ones to grow

Supermassive black holes may provide a nursery for mini ones to grow

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We may have a clearer understanding of why the accretion disc around large black holes is so bright Dana Berry/SkyWorks Digital/NASA Thousands of relatively small black holes may be circling the supermassive black holes that lurk at the centres of galaxies. The idea would not only help explain how small black holes grow larger, it would also give us a new understanding of why supermassive black holes appear so bright. The centres of galaxies are extraordinarily dense, so matter – including relatively small, or stellar-mass, black holes – tends to accumulate there. Some of… Source link

Heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever measured will someday collide, astronomers report

Heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever measured will someday collide, astronomers report

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Black holes are some of the most powerful, destructive and massive objects in the known universe, devouring stars at unimaginable speeds and ripping them apart with such ferocity that they discharge luminous flares visible from millions of lightyears away. When black holes collide into each other, they produce gravitational waves, as scientists learned in 2015 after recording a pair of stellar-mass black holes colliding for the first time. One can only imagine the spectacle that would ensure if a pair of supermassive black holes (which are much larger) collided into each other. Unfortunately for astronomers and astronomy aficionados alike, scientists have never detected such a merger… and a recent study of the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever measured may help explain why. Published by a team of American scientists in The Astrophysical Journal, the study analyzes “one of the most massive black hole systems known,” a binary located within the elliptical galaxy B2 0402+379. It is not unusual for two black holes to get bound in orbit with each other after galaxies merge; when this happens, …

Supermassive Games adds to the expanding list of industry layoffs

Supermassive Games adds to the expanding list of industry layoffs

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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Supermassive Games, the developer of Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures anthology, announced today that it is adding to the growing list of studios laying off staff in 2024. The studio said that, in part because of prevailing problems in the industry, it will be reorganizing, and plans to enter a period of consultation. Reportedly, it may lay off up to 90 people, or around 25-30% of its staff. Bloomberg reports that 150 Supermassive employees were warned that their jobs were at risk today, in accordance with labor laws. It also says that the company expects to lay off around 90 people after its consultation period. Supermassive later confirmed this in a statement on X (formerly Twitter), saying, “We are all too aware of how unsettling and difficult this process is going to be for all our employees and will be working closely with all those involved to ensure the process is …

Origins of intense light in supermassive black holes and Tidal Disruption Events revealed

Origins of intense light in supermassive black holes and Tidal Disruption Events revealed

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A new study by Hebrew University is a significant breakthrough in understanding Tidal Disruption Events involving supermassive black holes. For the first time, the new simulations accurately replicate the entire sequence of a Tidal Disruption Event from stellar disruption to the peak luminosity of the resulting flare. The mysteries of supermassive black holes have long captivated astronomers, offering a glimpse into the deepest corners of our Universe. The research sheds new light on these enigmatic cosmic entities. The study, ‘Stream-disk shocks as the origins of peak light in Tidal Disruption Events,’ is published in Nature. A significant leap forward in understanding supermassive black holes Supermassive black holes, ranging from millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun, have remained elusive despite their pivotal role in shaping galaxies. Their extreme gravitational pull warps spacetime, creating an environment that defies conventional understanding and challenges observational astronomers. Enter Tidal Disruption Events, a dramatic phenomenon that occurs when ill-fated stars venture too close to a black hole’s event horizon and are torn apart into thin streams of …