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NASA's Fermi Satellite Maps Entire Sky, Finds Mysterious Unknown Object
StartsWithABang writes: With the launch of the Fermi satellite in the late 2000s, we began observing the highest energy photons in the Universe — gamma rays — all over the sky, to unprecedented precision. Produced from cosmic ray showers in space when high energy protons run into other, stationary protons, these gamma rays locate point sources from supermassive black holes to supernova remnants to pulsars. There is, additionally, a great correlation between the infrared sky and the gamma ray sky, since the great high-energy background scatters off of the diffuse infrared gas, producing gamma rays there as well. But while a great many sources can be correlated with known structures, Fermi reveals at least one unknown, intense behemoth that emits spectacularly in gamma rays.
That site is completely out of control with trackers and third-party Javascript.
If I was in their web department I would do the honourable thing and commit seppuku.
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2016/01/08/the-first-all-sky-extreme-energy-map-reveals-an-unknown-monster-in-our-galaxy-synopsis/
Fuck forbes.
News stories with Forbes links are useless. You can't read them, and nobody's going to turn off their malware/ad blockers for them. At this time, Forbes is always a case of wait-until-someone-finds-another-link and check the comments for said link.
There seems to be some relationship between StartsWithABang and Forbes. All the submissions are to Forbes links.
StartsWithABang appears to be a shill and needs to be banned.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
Should not be accepted by the editors, due to Forbes' ad-blocker policy.
Forbes asked readers to turn off ad blockers then immediately served them pop-under malware.
http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-say-block-that-malware/