200,000 light years away, a rotating black hole seven times more massive than our Sun is busy devouring its companion main-sequence star. Scientists have detected polarized photons emerging from the black hole system, housed in the satellite dwarf galaxy LMC X-3, for the first time, researchers from India announced recently.

As part of NASA’s ambitious Mars Sample Return (MSR) endeavor, work is ongoing to ensure the collection of Martian samples and their journey to Earth meet the required safety standards, agency officials said during a meeting last week (October 20).