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Elusive Dumbo octopus filmed in Java Trench 23,000 feet below the ocean surface

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Elusive ‘dumbo’ octopus is filmed in Java Trench 23,000 feet below the ocean surface, breaking the previous record for deepest octopus sighting ever  A team of researchers in Java observed a rare ‘dumbo’ octopus The sighting took place at 23,000 feet, the deepest recorded octopus encounter The previous record was set in 1950 near Barbados … Read more

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spots an elusive giant black hole

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An elusive mid-sized black hole that was tearing apart a wayward star has been spotted by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. A team of astronomers found the stellar object – known as an ‘intermediate-mass black hole’ – 740 million light-years away using Hubble and X-ray observatories.  Experts from the University of New Hampshire in … Read more