Newswise – Black holes in space are a mystery. Astrophysicists believed they can swallow up nearby matter, but until recently, theyhaven’t understood what draws matter close to black holes inthe first place. Want to understand black holes? The bestway to do it is to create one.

It’s always been assumed that when matter gets too close tothe black hole?s outer edge, it plunges quickly, smoothlyand quietly into the hole. But new research shows this isn’tthe way it happens. Black holes are actually filled withturbulent magnetic fields that suck matter into them.
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Nazis, new planets and theArk of theCovenant?what a week it is on Dreamland! This week, wejourney deep into the middle east in search of the Ark ofthe Covenant with British author and adventurer GrahamPhillips. You will learn more about the secrets of the Arkin this program than you have ever thought possible. FollowGraham’s thrilling journey from England to the Middle Eastwhere he finds a mountain that contains the exact landformsdescribed in the Bible as being present on Mount Sinai whenMoses received the commandments. Walk, with him, in the veryplace that the encounter might have taken place, and listento him describe the strange geoplasmic lights that come outof the ground in the area to this day.read more

In 1995, in a study published in Nature magazine, aresearcher asked 122 people to try to match the pictures ofchildren they didn’t know with photos of their mothers andfathers. They correctly paired about half of the infantswith their fathers, but had a much lower success rate whentrying to match infants with photos of their mothers,proving that babies really do tend to resemble their dads.Scientists think this may be a natural paternity test, thatpredates current DNA tests.
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