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The Army chose Bell Textron to develop the next generation of combat aircraft, based on Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor.

Fort Worth’s Bell Textron Wins Multi-Billion US Army Contract to Replace Black Hawks

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The military has chosen Bell Textron to develop the next generation of combat aircraft, based on Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor. Bell Fort Worth-based Bell Textron Inc. has won a development contract potentially worth billions of dollars for the US Army’s next generation of helicopters to replace its fleet of Black Hawks. Textron on Monday announced …

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Bell Textron’s Valor wins Army FLRAA competition to replace Black Hawk

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The V-280 Valor, Bell’s entry for the military’s future long-range assault aircraft, in flight. (Bell) WASHINGTON — After years of development, prototyping and test flights, the Army today announced that the Bell Textron Valor tiltrotor won its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition to be the successor to the aging UH-60 Black Hawk and a …

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Simulations predict existence of radio wave hotspots in black holes

Simulations predict existence of radio wave hotspots in black holes

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Some of the synthetic images produced by the researchers show the hotspots spinning as an observer spins around the black hole’s spin axis. Credit: Crinquand et al Black holes, regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are among the most fascinating and studied cosmic phenomena. Although there are now countless …

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A black hole tore apart a star and brought together astronomers from around the world

A black hole tore apart a star and brought together astronomers from around the world

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It was an event not seen in over a decade: a sudden burst of energy launched from the center of a distant galaxy, bright enough to be visible 8.5 billion light-years away. . With a burst of light equivalent to more than 1,000 trillion suns, the flash was first detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility, …

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Call of Duty players flock to buy 'all black' DLC skin, hide in dark corners

Call of Duty players flock to buy ‘all black’ DLC skin, hide in dark corners

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Enlarge / You’ll never see me coming… Industry watchers who pay attention to Steam’s bestseller charts may have noticed a surprising entry climbing near the top in recent days: a cosmetic Call of Duty Los Angeles Thieves Call of Duty League (CDL) team themed skin pack. These surprisingly strong sales likely have little to do …

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Study rules out primordial black holes originally clustered as dark matter candidates

Study rules out primordial black holes originally clustered as dark matter candidates

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Pixabay. Primordial black holes (PBH) are fascinating cosmic bodies that have been widely studied by astrophysicists around the world. As their name suggests, these are black holes that would have appeared in the early days of the universe, less than a second after the Big Bang. Physics theory suggests that in the split second before …

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A supermassive black hole violently tears apart a star and launches a relativistic jet towards Earth

A supermassive black hole violently tears apart a star and launches a relativistic jet towards Earth

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Illustration of a Tidal Disturbance Event (TDE). Credit: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology Rare observation of a luminous jet spewed by a supermassive black hole Astronomers Discover Bright Optical Flare Caused By Dying Star’s Encounter With Supermassive black hole A black hole is a …

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Astronomers capture black hole engulfing star in 'hyper-feeding frenzy'

Astronomers capture black hole engulfing star in ‘hyper-feeding frenzy’

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Enlarge / Illustration of a spaghetti star as it is sucked into a supermassive black hole during a tidal disturbance event (TDE). ESO/M. Cereal fairs Earlier this year, astronomers picked up an unusually bright signal in the X-ray, optical and radio regimes, dubbed AT 2022cmc. They have now determined that the most likely source of …

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A bright flash detected in February was a black hole jet pointed directly at Earth

A bright flash detected in February was a black hole jet pointed directly at Earth

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Drawing: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology On February 11, astronomers saw a distant flash of light that seemed to come from a source as bright as a quadrillion suns. They alerted other scientists to the event, and several telescopes quickly swung around to focus …

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