Science and tech

James Webb Space Telescope finds [extremely red] supermassive black hole growing in the early universe. The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun.

A long filament of roiling plasma arcing over the sun’s surface snapped this week, leaving behind a scalding scar that has been dubbed a “canyon of fire” It also spat a burst of solar plasma into space. There’s a chance this solar outburst and several that followed it could trigger minor geomagnetic storms on Earth.