A dwarf galaxy 500 times smaller than our own Milky Way has a giant dark heart, scientists have discovered.
M60-UCD1 is the smallest galaxy known to contain a super-massive black hole at its centre, one with a mass equivalent to 21 million suns. The finding suggests that huge black holes may be more common than was previously thought.
A black hole is a region where matter has become so densely squeezed that not even light can escape its gravitational pull.
The above photo issued by Nasa/Space Telescope Science Institute/European Space Agency is a Hubble Space telescope image showing the monster galaxy M60 (centre).
The ultra-compact dwarf galaxy M60-UCD1 is highlighted at the bottom right and also enlarged as an inset.
Store robber used banana as gun
Police in Philadelphia say a man used a banana he swiped from a convenience store counter to simulate a gun while he robbed the place.
Police posted surveillance video of the hold-up reported in the East Parkside neighbourhood. The footage shows a man entering the corner grocery store. He waits in line and then takes a banana from the counter by the cash register.
The suspect then sticks the banana in a front pocket of his jumper and points it towards the cashier. Police say the man demanded money and cigarettes and made off with an undetermined amount of cash. The video shows him riding off on a bicycle.
Jaguar back home after 46 years
Forty-six years after the first really nice car Ivan Schneider ever owned disappeared from in front of his New York City building, the Jaguar convertible is coming home.
Running a routine check at the Port of Long Beach, California Highway Patrol identified the 1967 Jaguar XKE as stolen. The problem: it was already on a cargo ship, headed for Europe. More than two months later, the car is back in southern California.
After a lifetime of owning luxury cars, 82-year-old Schneider said in an interview from his Florida home that he always remembered the Jag as the “prettiest” he had bought. Decades later, it is far from pristine. His plan is to refurbish it for Sunday drives.
Driver’s armpit hair set on fire
A car full of teenagers crashed in Idaho after authorities say one of the passengers lit the driver’s armpit hair on fire with a lighter.
All five young people in the Ford Bronco were hurt in the crash and had to receive medical treatment, the Idaho Statesman reports.
Authorities say two of the passengers were thrown from the vehicle, but none of the five suffered life-threatening injuries.
The Ada County Sheriff’s Office said the rollover occurred after a 16-year-old boy was messing around in the front seat and lit 18-year-old Tristian Myers’s armpit hair while Myers was driving.
Deputies cited Myers with inattentive driving, while the 16-year-old was cited for interfering with the driver’s safety.