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‘Dune: Prophecy:’ ‘Twice Born:’ Plans go awry, people die, and what’s behind those blue eyes?

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Fill a glass of spiked eggnog as we streak toward the finish line of “Dune: Prophecy!” The cold stone walls of the Harkonnen brood’s gothic apartment on Salusa Secundus are a bit more accommodating than the smell of furry leviathan flesh inside their bleak hovel on the chilly planet of Lankiveil many decades earlier, and … Read more

Not all stars with black hole companions die gruesome deaths, scientists say

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Death by black hole isn’t always inevitable for stars that exist in binary systems with one of these cosmic titans. There may be a way for small stars in such systems to dodge their expected fates: violent supernovas that end in the creation of another black hole. This expected mechanism is also believed to turn … Read more