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Uthappa Hits 87 As Knight Riders Beat Supergiant In IPL

2020-06-25T13:50:57Z

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PUNE, India (AP) - Robin Uthappa struck an inspired 87 and captain Gautam Gambhir added 62 as two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders swept to a seven-wicket victory over Rising Pune Supergiant in the Indian Premier League on Wednesday. An unbeaten 51 by Steven Smith helped Supergiant reach a solid total of 182-5, only for Uthappa and Gambhir to guide Knight Riders to 184-3 and [http://cricketnfootballcenter.website2.me/blog/gautam-gambhir-last-10-test-innings http://cricketnfootballcenter.website2.me/blog/gautam-gambhir-last-10-test-innings] a win that took them to the top of the standings. Uthappa hammered seven boundaries and six sixes in his 47-ball knock, which followed an impressive display behind the stumps by the wicketkeeper-batsman. Smith's unbeaten 51, which included four boundaries and a six from 37 balls, was his team's standout performance after opener Ajinkya Rahane had made a bright start with 46 from 41 deliveries before being stumped by Uthappa. Fellow opener Rahul Tripathi chipped in with a useful innings of 38, which included three fours off Sunil Narine in the sixth over. His knock ended with a googly from Piyush Chawla that he clipped onto his stumps. Supergiant tried to step up the run rate in the closing stages, only to lose two wickets in the 18th over - with Mahendra Singh Dhoni (23) and Manoj Tiwary (1) both stumped by Uthappa off Kuldeep Yadav deliveries. Daniel Christian smacked two consecutive sixes off Chris Woakes at the end of an 19th over that yielded 18 runs, with 12 more being plundered off the final over. The last ball of the innings saw Smith's attempted big hit providing a simple catch at deep mid-wicket for Manish Pandey off a full toss from Umesh Yadav. In reply, Knight Riders lost Narine (16) to a runout that left his team on 20-1, but any nerves were very soon steadied. Uthappa slashed a four and two sixes from Washington Sundar's first three balls of the eighth over, along with two consecutive sixes off Imran Tahir in the 16th. He was dismissed in the following over, just five runs short of the victory target. Looking for a six to finish the game in style, his effort came up short and provided an easy catch for Tripathi off a Jaydev Unadkat delivery. Gambhir was out the next over, an easy catch for Shardul Thakur after an awkward shot off the bowling of Christian. Darren Bravo and Pandey finished off the Knight Riders innings, with the West Indies batsman drilling a four through the covers to wrap up the win.

Astronomers Saw A Black Hole Collide With A mysterious Object That Shouldn t Exist

2020-06-25T13:39:55Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> GW190814: A black hole and a neutron star colliding, or something even more unusual? Carl Knox/OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence On Aug. 14, 2019, a gravitational wave -- a massive ripple through the fabric of space-time -- washed over the Earth. The wave was detected by sophisticated, fine-tuned lasers in the US and Italy. And [http://cricketnfootballcenter.website2.me/blog/gautam-gambhir-last-10-test-innings cricketnfootballcenter.website2.me] it was astonishing. While the lasers had previously picked up [/news/ligo-proves-einstein-right-black-holes-gravitational-waves/ black hole collisions] and [/news/ripples-in-space-time-help-measure-how-fast-the-universe-is-expanding/ neutron star collisions], they were now suggesting something unprecedented: a black hole smashing into a neutron star. The signal was one of the strongest ever seen by the gravitational wave scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory and Italy's Virgo observatory. After an alert was sent out moments after detection, teams of astronomers across the world turned their telescopes to the point in space that the wave emanated from. But their searches came up empty. No light, no X-rays, no infrared, no gamma rays. CNET Science From the cosmos to your inbox. Get the latest space stories from CNET every week. [/news/ripples-in-space-time-suggest-a-black-hole-swallowed-a-neutron-star/ The event was puzzling]. And it became more puzzling as scientists began to pore over the data. On Tuesday, researchers from the LIGO and Virgo collaborations detail their full analysis of the gravitational wave detection, dubbed GW190814, in [ The Astrophysical Journal Letters]. It's the first detailed study of the epic cosmic collision, and it only deepens the mystery. "GW190814 is, I think, the first time we've observed gravitational waves where the source of the waves is genuinely puzzling," said Rory Smith, an astrophysicist at Monash University in Australia. "I've been in LIGO for just over 10 years now, and this is certainly one of the most exciting events we've seen." The key to the research are the two LIGO facilities and the Virgo facility which can detect gravitational waves. Extreme astronomical objects like black holes and neutron stars send out waves across the cosmos when they collide. The facilities are essentially listening in to the sounds of massive cosmic beasts colliding with each other -- and then working backward to understand their physical characteristics. Smith and his colleagues have been working on simulating these types of collisions using supercomputers, which help perform that back-calculation and can infer what the objects are, their likely masses and their whereabouts. "We use fancy parallelized algorithms which can run our analyses on a supercomputer cluster containing many hundreds, or thousands of individual computers," he said. "Running the same analysis on your laptop would have taken around 50 to 100 years." The observations show GW190814 pair collided around in a deep corner of space, 800 million light-years away. One half of the pair is definitely a black hole, about 23 times more massive than our sun. But its dancing partner is mysterious -- the other object is only around 2.6 times more massive than our sun, which puts it in a weird position. "It's something that has not been seen before," said Hannah Middleton, an astrophysicist at the University of Melbourne. It could be a neutron star, that possibility is still on the table, but it might also be a black hole. Middleton says it is "a bit of a mystery" as to which... but it's also a slight problem. "It's hard to explain how either a black hole or a neutron star could be around 2.6 solar masses," notes Smith. Scientists have never detected a black hole that's so light. Neutron stars are not expected to be that heavy -- they collapse into black holes when they get too big. So the mysterious object seems to be some sort of Goldilocks star that doesn't fit our current understanding. Whatever it turns out to be, it will rewrite our knowledge on one of the two extreme objects.

Astronomers Saw A Black Hole Collide With A mysterious Object That Shouldn t Exist

2020-06-25T11:09:29Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> GW190814: A black hole and a neutron star colliding, [http://cricketnfootballcenter.website2.me/blog/gautam-gambhir-last-10-test-innings http://cricketnfootballcenter.website2.me/blog/gautam-gambhir-last-10-test-innings] or something even more unusual? Carl Knox/OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence On Aug. 14, 2019, a gravitational wave -- a massive ripple through the fabric of space-time -- washed over the Earth. The wave was detected by sophisticated, fine-tuned lasers in the US and Italy. And it was astonishing. While the lasers had previously picked up [/news/ligo-proves-einstein-right-black-holes-gravitational-waves/ black hole collisions] and [/news/ripples-in-space-time-help-measure-how-fast-the-universe-is-expanding/ neutron star collisions], they were now suggesting something unprecedented: a black hole smashing into a neutron star. The signal was one of the strongest ever seen by the gravitational wave scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory and Italy's Virgo observatory. After an alert was sent out moments after detection, teams of astronomers across the world turned their telescopes to the point in space that the wave emanated from. But their searches came up empty. No light, no X-rays, no infrared, no gamma rays. CNET Science From the cosmos to your inbox. Get the latest space stories from CNET every week. [/news/ripples-in-space-time-suggest-a-black-hole-swallowed-a-neutron-star/ The event was puzzling]. And it became more puzzling as scientists began to pore over the data. On Tuesday, researchers from the LIGO and Virgo collaborations detail their full analysis of the gravitational wave detection, dubbed GW190814, in [ The Astrophysical Journal Letters]. It's the first detailed study of the epic cosmic collision, and it only deepens the mystery. "GW190814 is, I think, the first time we've observed gravitational waves where the source of the waves is genuinely puzzling," said Rory Smith, an astrophysicist at Monash University in Australia. "I've been in LIGO for just over 10 years now, and this is certainly one of the most exciting events we've seen." The key to the research are the two LIGO facilities and the Virgo facility which can detect gravitational waves. Extreme astronomical objects like black holes and neutron stars send out waves across the cosmos when they collide. The facilities are essentially listening in to the sounds of massive cosmic beasts colliding with each other -- and then working backward to understand their physical characteristics. Smith and his colleagues have been working on simulating these types of collisions using supercomputers, which help perform that back-calculation and can infer what the objects are, their likely masses and their whereabouts. "We use fancy parallelized algorithms which can run our analyses on a supercomputer cluster containing many hundreds, or thousands of individual computers," he said. "Running the same analysis on your laptop would have taken around 50 to 100 years." The observations show GW190814 pair collided around in a deep corner of space, 800 million light-years away. One half of the pair is definitely a black hole, about 23 times more massive than our sun. But its dancing partner is mysterious -- the other object is only around 2.6 times more massive than our sun, which puts it in a weird position. "It's something that has not been seen before," said Hannah Middleton, an astrophysicist at the University of Melbourne. It could be a neutron star, that possibility is still on the table, but it might also be a black hole. Middleton says it is "a bit of a mystery" as to which... but it's also a slight problem. "It's hard to explain how either a black hole or a neutron star could be around 2.6 solar masses," notes Smith. Scientists have never detected a black hole that's so light. Neutron stars are not expected to be that heavy -- they collapse into black holes when they get too big. So the mysterious object seems to be some sort of Goldilocks star that doesn't fit our current understanding. Whatever it turns out to be, it will rewrite our knowledge on one of the two extreme objects.

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2020-06-25T11:09:27Z

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