A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant galaxy. This sudden activation provides a unique opportunity to study the behavior of these cosmic giants in real time.

Here’s the first thing you notice about Michal Ansky: She’s beautiful. Tall, with long black hair and a strong, lean Israeli build. In the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Marina del Rey, where we meet, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A system astronomers call Ansky, in the galaxy at the center of this image, is home to a recently ...

In December 2019, an ordinary galaxy 300 million light-years from us in the constellation Virgo suddenly woke up. After decades of inactivity, the black hole at the galaxy's heart burst with light.

In a blind tasting, meat grown from stem cells tasted just like chicken, but without the fat that makes chicken taste good. Renowned Israeli gastronome Michal Ansky knows her food. She’s a ...

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) ...

I promised people who read my story on Michal Ansky that here on the blog they’d find a list of her favorite restaurants in Israel. Here’s the beginning of my piece: Here’s the first thing you notice ...

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A psychiatrist whom I worked with once observed that it is easier to personify evil than good. Coming from a Christian tradition, and with an anthropological bent, he suggested that in most cultures, ...

Metropolitan Books, 352 pages, $30. On January 1, 1915, an article was published in a Warsaw-based Yiddish newspaper that appealed to its readers to record their experiences: We must become the ...

The roomful of stunning photographs currently on display in Russia at the European University at St. Petersburg is dedicated to the theme of “Jewish Children.” It is triply wondrous: first, on account ...