Headline of the day: “More digging needed to determine whether bones of fallen Waterloo soldiers were sold as fertilizer.“
In the unearthly Metamorphe series, smoke-like masses swirl around hoodoos and dunes dotting the terrain. A mysterious air pervades the six illuminated works, which blend the drone-light photographs of Reuben Wu (previously) with Jenni Pasanen’s digital creations produced through artificial intelligence. Each piece envisions the earth’s surface following metamorphosis when living beings are extinct and only the landscape remains.
Unai no tomo: Catalogues of Japanese Toys (1891–1923): a collection of images at the Public Domain Review.
The fastest-growing black hole of the last 9 billion years has been discovered by an international team led by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU).
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-1449240174198-2’); });The black hole consumes the equivalent of one Earth every second and shines 7,000 times brighter than all the light from our own galaxy, making it visible to well-equipped backyard astronomers.