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Holedown blocks require a hefty number of hits to break them and as they advance towards the player after each turn, the only way to survive is to trap the ball behind the blocks and set off a long chain of collisions. This is the whole game. Again and again and again. And it feels goooood.
Holedown is charming and I would advise any gaming commuter to snap it up as it is a masterclass of game design. For some players, it will become the go-to zen game to kill time. But for others, it will take just three days for Holedown to reveal a black hole at its heart.
Super massive black holes, monsters up to billions of times heavier than the Sun that eat everything around them including light, are difficult to study because no information can escape from within. Theoretically, there are very few properties that we can even hope to measure. One property that might possibly be observed is spin, but due to the difficulties involved there have been no direct observations of black hole spin.
Searching for evidence for black hole spin, an international team analyzed over two decades of observational data for the galaxy M87. This galaxy located 55 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Virgo harbors a black hole 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun, the same black hole which yielded the first image of a black hole shadow by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in 2019. The supermassive black hole in M87 is known to have an accretion disk, which feeds matter into the black hole, and a jet, in which matter is ejected from near the black hole at close to the speed of light.
The results show that gravitational interactions between the accretion disk and the black hole's spin cause the base of the jet to wobble, or precess, much the same way that gravitational interactions within the Solar System cause the Earth to precess. The team successfully linked the dynamics of the jet with the central supermassive black hole, providing direct evidence that the black hole does in fact spin. The jet's direction changes by about 10 degrees with a precession period of 11 years, matching theoretical supercomputer simulations conducted by ATERUI II at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).
"We are thrilled by this significant finding," says Yuzhu Cui, lead author on the paper summarizing the research she started as a graduate student at NAOJ before moving to Zhejiang Lab as a postdoctoral researcher. "Since the misalignment between the black hole and the disk is relatively small and the precession period is around 11 years, accumulating high-resolution data tracing M87 structure over two decades and thorough analysis are essential to obtain this achievement."
"After the success of black hole imaging in this galaxy with the EHT, whether this black hole is spinning or not has been a central concern among scientists," explains Dr. Kazuhiro Hada from NAOJ. "Now anticipation has turned into certainty. This monster black hole is indeed spinning."
"This is an exciting scientific milestone that was finally revealed through years of joint observations by the international researchers team from 45 institutions around the world, working together as one," says Dr. Motoki Kino at Kogakuin University, the coordinator of the East Asian VLBI Network Active Galactic Nuclei Science Working Group. "Our observational data beautifully fitted to the simple sinusoidal curve bring us new advances in our understanding of black hole and jet system."
Transmyocardial Revascularization New York, NY, Sept. 11, 1999 -- Using a laser to punch holes in the wall of the heart can help relieve angina in patients for whom no other treatments are available, according to a study published in the Sept. 11, 1999, issue of The Lancet. Although it remains a mystery why the technique works, the study is the most scientifically convincing demonstration yet of its benefits, according to Dr. Daniel Burkhoff, associate professor of medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and lead author of the study.
Angina, typically a dull, squeezing pain in the chest and left arm, arises from inadequate blood flow to the heart, usually caused by arteries clogged with cholesterol. Medications to reduce cholesterol and improve blood flow are generally the first option offered to patients. For patients who do not respond to medications, angioplasty and coronary artery bypass are commonly used to eliminate or get around constrictions in the vessels supplying blood to the heart. But angioplasty and coronary artery bypass do not work for patients whose blood vessels are constricted in many places. The new study confirms that TMR can help these patients.
The procedure was originally developed as an attempt to mimic blood flow in alligator hearts. In addition to blood vessels on the outside of the heart, alligators and other reptiles have deep channels in the heart wall that allow oxygenated blood inside the heart to reach the muscle. Surgeons punched tiny holes all the way through the heart muscles in humans to see if they could get more oxygenated blood to the heart muscle. The holes closed up and failed to nourish the heart muscle with blood from inside the heart's chambers.
It remains unclear why TMR works. The current study showed no additional blood supply to the heart muscle as recorded by thallium stress tests. But more sensitive measures of blood flow used in previous animal studies in Dr. Burkhoff's laboratory did show increased blood flow to the heart muscle. Dr. Burkhoff believes the inflammation and subsequent healing that occurs after the holes are burned into the heart may promote the growth of additional blood vessels.
Twenty-five percent of us are born with a PFO, or Patent Foramen Ovale, an opening in the heart between the left and right atrium which failed to close properly after our birth. As a result, this hole causes some blood to leak backwards from the right atrium to the left atrium.
Once he discovered the PFO, interventional cardiology expert Dr. JuYong Lee, closed the PFO on December 13, 2021 minimally invasively via a guide wire placing a tiny device called Cardioform inside her heart to plug the heart hole between heart atriums forever and to prevent future strokes.
Research shows that consumption of these highly-caffeinated drinks can lead to a potentially serious heart condition known as Atrial Fibrillation, or Afib, a type of irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) occurring in the upper chambers of the heart. If left untreated, Afib could cause heart palpitations, blood clots, stroke, and even heart failure in extreme cases.
September is National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month. Because our cardiothoracic specialists at CTVS take heart health and the conditions affecting it very seriously, here are a few important things we want you to know about energy drinks and your heart:
It is important to seek medical attention immediately if you feel any of these symptoms which could indicate Afib or another serious heart condition. Experts agree that further research is needed about the link between energy drinks and their effects on the heart.
Children with Heart Conditions Have Special Healthcare Needs
A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 1 in 77 U.S. children reportedly had a current heart condition in 2016.
(Published: September 27, 2018)
Study Finds Infant Cardiac Deaths Have Declined in States that Mandate Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease
The Journal of the American Medical Association has published a study reporting a more than 33% decline in infant deaths from critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) in eight states that mandated screening for CCHD using pulse oximetry compared to states without screening policies
(Published: December 5, 2017)
Estimating the Number of People with Congenital Heart Defects Living in the United States
The journal Circulation has published a study that estimates about 1 million children and 1.4 million adults in the United States were living with a congenital heart defect (CHD) in 2010.
(Published: July 5, 2016)
Use of Special Education Services among Children with CHDs
CDC study findings in Pediatrics show that children with congenital heart defects (CHDs) received special education services more often than children without birth defects.
(Published: August 17, 2015)
Estimated Number of Infants Detected and Missed by Critical Congenital Heart Defect Screening
The journal Pediatrics has published a study estimating the number of infants with critical congenital heart defects(critical CHDs) potentially detected or missed through universal screening for critical CHDs using pulse oximetry.
(Published: May 11, 2015)
Diabetes before pregnancy and congenital heart defects
In a study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, women with diabetes before pregnancy were about 4 times more likely to have a pregnancy affected by a congenital heart defect compared to women without diabetes.
(Published: February 2015)
Infant Death Due to Heart Defects
Congenital heart defects are conditions present at birth that can affect the way the heart works. They can cause lifelong disability or death. They are the most common type of birth defect, affecting nearly 40,000 births in the United States each year.
(Published: July 9, 2014)
Blue Hole Regional Park is a natural, spring-fed swimming hole lined with the iconic Cypress Trees located deep in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. The whole family will enjoy swimming in crystal clear water, sunbathing on the grassy swim lawn, and of course, swinging on our famous rope swings!
I had the American Dream, yet my heart felt empty. I had a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a home of my own, yet peace eluded me. I had everything I thought would make me happy, yet depression nibbled at the edges of my emotions.
Why could I not find contentment? Because I had a cross-shaped hole in my heart that another baby and a bigger house would never fill. Often, we attempt to stuff worldly things (people, addictions, etc.) into that cross-shaped hole in our hearts, but they will never fit. God created that hole for Him and Him alone.
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