Polish Academy of Sciences

Astronomers find ‘impossibly huge’ black hole with a mass 70 times GREATER than the sun

The newly-discovered black hole is 15,000 light-years from Earth and so far scientists had only known of black holes with masses below 50 times that of the sun. "Nature", Jifeng Liu et al. Source: Krzysztof Belczyński

The newly-discovered black hole, which researchers have called LB-1, is located 15,000 light-years from Earth and so far scientists have only known of black holes with masses below 50 times that of the sun.

With NASA warning that asteroid collision is a certainty, planetary geologist begins research into how to survive deadly impact

At the end of July a massive asteroid dubbed ‘City Killer’ hurtled past earth. If it had hit Warsaw, the whole of central Poland would have been threatened with a crater several kilometres wide and 400 metres deep, says planetary geologist Dr Anna Łosiak.

Tragedy strikes as scientists’ bodies found after going for walk in Norwegian mountains and being swept away by avalanche

The polar explorers left their base on Friday to go on a trip in the mountains. Their bodies were found on Sunday after concerned fellow researchers alerted the authorities when the pair failed to return.

Where there’s a will there’s a wave: Efforts to clean up the Baltic Sea are slowly making progress

As delegates wrap up two days of talks at the 20th anniversary of the Baltic Sea Day in St. Petersburg, Russia, TFN takes a closer look at the dangers threatening the Baltic’s ecosystems, survival and the actions being undertaken to counter them.

First strike: how the Poles wanted to launch a ‘preventive war’ against Hitler’s Germany

In an interview with historian Marek Kornat TFN learns how Piłsudski tried to get European support for action against Hitler in the early 1930s.

Fossils of 200-mln-year-old lizard-mammal weighing 9 tons and the size of an elephant found in village

The giant toothless creature was more closely related to mammals than dinosaurs and looked like a hippo with bent legs, a beak and two tusks.

Polish egyptologist discovers unique depictions of secretary bird

Polish egyptologist Filip Taterka from the Polish Academy of Sciences discovered the sole depictions of the raptor secretary bird in the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Barari, in Egypt.

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