LARGEST BLACK HOLE RECORDED: A record-breaking supermassive black hole has been identified 300 million light-years away in a giant elliptical galaxy, according to NASA. The black hole is 21 billion times the mass of the sun, considerably larger than a black hole at the center of the Milky Way, a space agency news release said.
A black hole is described by Webster’s Dictionary as a “celestial body with a small diameter and intense gravitational field that is held to be a collapsed star.”
TECH COMPETITION: Will artificial intelligence be the end of mankind? Or will it make our life far easier? The answer could be worth $5 million.
A competition sponsored by IBM and XPrize, a nonprofit, is prompting tech teams from around the world to develop ways humans can collaborate with “cognitive technologies” to tackle problems -- climate change, education and health care, for example.
The winner of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, a cognitive computing competition, will be announced at the TED conference in 2020, according to the competition’s website.
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