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Rachel Reeves planning to raise taxes and cut spending in October budget

Chancellor insists she still has large black hole to fill despite stronger than expected growth in first half of 2024

The Guardian - UK

The UK risks missing out on the coming AI boom – here’s how it can get back on track

Rachel Reeves, the UK chancellor of the exchequer, has been making cost-cutting announcements ahead of a crunch October budget to deal with what she says is a black hole in the country’s finances. Along with scrapping winter fuel payments, a planned cap on social care and various road and infrastructure…

The Conversation

Watch a star get destroyed by a supermassive black hole in the first simulation of its kind

Giant black holes in the centres of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars.

The Conversation

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What happens to the wreckage created when extreme dead stars clash?

Neutron stars are the universe's most extreme stars, composed of matter so dense a teaspoon of it would weigh as much as Mt. Everest. So, when they collide, it's quite the event.

Space

'Final parsec problem' that makes supermassive black holes impossible to explain could finally have a solution

A new study helps solve the "final parsec problem" that has made supermassive black hole formation impossible to explain, pointing to a strange form of dark matter as the key.

LiveScience

Help scientists find new black holes with this free smartphone app

Developed by the Dutch Black Hole Consortium, the Black Hole Finder app allows the public to help sort through thousands of images to identify potential targets of interest.

Space

Astronomers find black hole's favorite snack: 'The star appears to be living to die another day'

Astronomers have pinned down a faraway black hole's snack schedule after watching it devour a star across years.

Space

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Mesmerizing James Webb Space Telescope photo lets you gaze into a hungry black hole

European Space Agency releases new photograph of the Messier 106 spiral galaxy

Digital Camera World

Emily in Paris season four review – as exciting as watching paint dry … if you really hate paint

This televisual black hole is devoid of plot, charisma and intrigue. Absolutely nothing happens, bar the odd dead-eyed conversation about the price of face cream

The Guardian - UK

James Webb Space Telescope strikes again, delivers new shining galaxy image

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the galaxy Messier 106, which sits in the Canes Venatici constellation.

Space

Massive star's gory 'death by black hole' is the biggest and brightest event of its kind

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole violently shredding and devouring a star nine times as massive as the sun.

Space

Small black holes could play 'hide-and-seek' with elusive supermassive black hole pairs

Small pairs of binary black holes could be used to play hide-and-seek' with elusive supermassive black hole binaries via gravitational waves carry the "baritone singing" of these cosmic titans.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope finds a shock near supermassive black hole (image)

By examining a distant supermassive black hole, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found a shocking link between jets and dust around these cosmic titans.

Space

Jury out on Chancellor Rachel Reeves, new poll shows after '£22 billion black hole' row

Ms Reeves clashed with her predecessor Jeremy Hunt over the public finances

Evening Standard

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The Conversation

Astronomy ‘Olympics’ is being hosted in Africa for the first time: 4 big talking points

Cutting-edge telescopes, gravitational waves, black holes and our solar system’s central star, the Sun, are just a few of the topics that will be on the table in Cape Town, South Africa, for an event that’s a scientific version of the Olympic Games – though the world’s leading astronomy researchers…

The Independent UK

New figures reveal £6 billion of unpaid council tax as lockdown and cost of living bites

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has already warned she faces ‘difficult decisions’ to fill a £22 billion black hole in Britain’s public finances

Space

'Cosmic dawn:' NASA's Roman Space Telescope will get baby pictures of our universe

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will look all the way back to cosmic dawn 400 million years after the Big Bang to discover how the universe fundamentally changed at this crucial point in its history.

The Guardian - UK

Here’s how Rachel Reeves could plug the black hole in Britain’s finances

Letters: Mark Bill offers the new chancellor some suggestions on raising taxes and closing loopholes. Plus letters from Joseph Koppenhout and David Tucker

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The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves confirms taxes will rise in her first budget in October

Ahead of her first budget, Rachel Reeves refused to rule out hiking capital gains and inheritance tax and pursuing pension reform to fill the £22bn black hole in the public finances

The Independent UK

Pensioners hit by Reeves’s plan to fill £22bn black hole

Pensioners take the brunt of early spending cuts as Rachel Reeves delivers a brutal assessment of the nation’s finances

Evening Standard

Martin Lewis slams Rachel Reeves' cut to winter fuel payments for pensioners amid '£22bn black hole'

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced changes to eligibility for universal winter payment

The National (Scotland)

Main points as Labour announce billions of spending cuts in 'new era of austerity'

Rachel Reeves has announced billions of pounds in spending cuts, after ordering the Treasury to carry out an audit of the UK’s public finances.

Evening Standard

'We will have to increase taxes in the Budget,' signals Rachel Reeves

Chancellor’s admission on tax hikes comes just weeks after Labour was elected to power

Space

Dark matter could play 'matchmaker' for supermassive black holes

Dark matter could act as a cosmic matchmaker between dark matter and merging supermassive black holes, solving astronomy's "final parsec problem."

Evening Standard

Chancellor Rachel Reeves in blame-game row over plans to cut costs to fix public finances

Chancellor to unveil £20 billion black hole in public accounts

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