Isaac Schultz

New York

Science Writer at Gizmodo

science writer @gizmodo. formerly @atlasobscura. 🌍🦣

Articles

A Rogue Black Hole of Unusual Size Is Devouring Stars in a Distant Galaxy

4 days ago | technewstube.com | Isaac Schultz

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A Rogue Black Hole of Unusual Size Is Devouring Stars in a Distant Galaxy

4 days ago | gizmodo.com | Isaac Schultz

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering through a galaxy with an even larger black hole at its core. The event, dubbed AT2024tvd, was first spotted by the Palomar Observatory‚Äôs Zwicky Transient Facility and later confirmed by powerhouse space telescopes including Hubble and Chandra, which helped zero in on the cosmic crime scene.
These Satellites Just Nailed the Most Precise Formation Flight in Space History

6 days ago | gizmodo.com | Isaac Schultz

The European Space Agencyâ€™s Proba-3 mission has achieved something no other missionâ€”or synchronized swimmerâ€”has before: autonomous, precision formation flying in space with millimeter accuracy. ESAâ€™s Proba-3 satellitesâ€”the Occulter and the Coronagraph, respectivelyâ€”maintained a steady 492-foot (150-meter) distance from one another in a highly elliptical orbit, simulating a single massive instrument.
Humans Have Never Seen 99.999% of the Seafloor, Study Finds, as Trump Greenlights Deep-Sea Mining

1 week ago | technewstube.com | Isaac Schultz

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Humans Have Never Seen 99.999% of the Seafloor, Study Finds, as Trump Greenlights Deep-Sea Mining

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Isaac Schultz

We’ve got better visuals of Mars than we do of our own ocean floor—and by a much larger margin than you’d think. A new study in Science Advances crunched the numbers from 43,681 deep-sea dives conducted since 1958 and comes to a mind-blowing conclusion: we’ve visually observed just 0.001% of the deep seafloor. That’s an area just slightly larger than Rhode Island—or about a tenth the size of Belgium—across about 70% of the planet.
The Next Wave of 17-Year Cicadas Is About to Party, Scream, and Die

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Isaac Schultz

A special brood of cicadasâ€”an ancient lineage of the periodical insectsâ€”is set to burst from the soil this May and June, covering more of the United States than any other 17-year brood. These bugsâ€”collectively known as Brood XIVâ€”have been biding their time underground since the last Bush administration, biding their time and counting the years go by. Now theyâ€™re back with two goals: Get loud and get laid. This isnâ€™t just any swarm.
AI Identifies Author of Charred Scroll Buried by Vesuvius for 2,000 Years

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Isaac Schultz

For the first time, researchers have identified the author and title of a document that’s been locked inside a charred scroll for nearly 2,000 years—without peeling back a single layer. The scroll, PHerc. 172, was recovered from the ruins of Herculaneum, the ancient Roman town buried by the ash and debris of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The scroll is one of three Herculaneum scrolls that now reside at Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries.
AI Identifies Author of Charred Scroll Buried by Vesuvius for 2,000 Years

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Isaac Schultz

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Cuttlefish Seem to 'Wave' at Each Other, but What They're Saying Is Still a Mystery

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Isaac Schultz

Researchers just spotted cunning cuttlefish waving to one another with their tentacles, a previously unobserved behavior that pushes the boundaries of the creature’s intelligence. Cuttlefishâ€”sometimes referred to as the “chameleons of the sea”â€”are renowned for their camouflage abilities. In other cephalopods, that color-changing capacity is also used for communication. And like other cephalopods, namely octopuses, cuttlefish are quite intelligent.
This Giant Magnet Can Lift an Aircraft Carrier-and Possibly Power the Future

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Isaac Schultz

The most powerful pulsed superconducting magnet system ever built is now complete, and will soon be part of the world’s grandest energy experiment. The system is the Central Solenoid of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a towering magnet core built and tested in the United States and destined for southern France, where the international project is assembling its gigantic tokamak.