The Priest Who Proved Einstein Wrong to Massive New Mars Map

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Today’s news stories include Life may have survived far north of equator during ‘Snowball Earth’, A Massive new Mars map, and more.

The priest who proved Einstein wrong--Einstein called his idea "abominable," but the world of physics came around to embracing the views of Georges Lemaître, reports Big Think. "As soon as cosmologists understood that the Universe is expanding, they were left with a difficult question: What happened at the beginning of time? The surprising first answer, the precursor of the Big Bang model, was the "primeval atom." It was proposed by the Catholic priest and cosmologist Georges Lemaître."

Life may have survived far north of equator during ‘Snowball Earth’--Ancient deep freeze might have been less bleak and prolonged than previously believed, reports Science.

Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars, reports NASA--There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. This supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a never-before-seen 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars, twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. It's likely the result of a rare, bizarre game of galactic billiards among three massive black holes.

Massive new Mars map is made up of 110,000 images, 5.7 trillion pixels--If printed out, it would be large enough to cover the entire Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California, reports Chris Young for Interesting Engineering. Strange radio bursts that outshine entire galaxies may come from colliding neutron stars, new study suggests reports Robert Lea for Live Science--Powerful fast radio bursts could be launched when neutron stars collide and merge, gravitational wave detections indicate.

NASA: Hubble Finds a Double Quasar in the Early Universe. "We don't see a lot of double quasars at this early time in the universe. And that's why this discovery is so exciting," saidYu-Ching Chen of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, lead author of this study

Quantum mysticism is a mistake--How physics gave rise to quantum mysticism, reports Philip Moriarty, a Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham for iAi News.