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How big is Phoenix A, the largest known black hole in 2026?

Unhelpfully Explained How big is Phoenix A, the largest known black hole in 2026?

Phoenix A, the largest known black hole as of October 2026, measured in Earths, Chuck Norrises, Coruscants and googols - back-of-the-envelope, of course.
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An elevated view over a bend of the Sài Gòn River in thick brownish smog, the downtown towers and a cable-stayed bridge dissolving into haze under a dim orange sun, a lone masked figure at the river railing

Thirty Years of Smoke One pfennig per breath

Indonesian wildfire haze has reached Sài Gòn - and a eight-year-old's fear about one day paying for air turns out to have been half right.
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A long candlelit banquet table in a high hall, seventeenth-century figures leaning over an open ledger, a potted palm behind them, and one lone cloaked figure waiting outside in the doorway

Words Nobody Asked For A kennel for maidens

German was argued into existence by people who mostly lost - four centuries of poets, pedants and purists building a language out loud.
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A lone figure seen from behind, crouched on a vast cracked plain, arranging four dark pebbles in a row on a stone slab while hundreds more scatter toward a hazy horizon under an enormous sky

Grammar All The Way Down Then I found four pebbles

Ultrafinitism wants infinity banished from math - but every fix for infinity is just another grammar, and quantizing an 80B model shows why.
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8 billion people and falling: a brief spike in human history

The Brief Spike 8 billion people and falling: a brief spike in human history

Global population peaks before 2080, then falls. Four-fifths of all human births are already behind us. What that means for the next two centuries.
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