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The Reasons Why Dogs Wag Their Tails and The Oldest Black Hole

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Why do dogs wag their tails? There’s more to it than you think, scientists have spotted the oldest known black hole yet, an update on the oldest dog record, and this day in history - we look at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.    Black Hole (Smithsonian Magazine) Tail Wagging (Sky News) Oldest Dog Update (Sky News) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Smooth Radio) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Instagram - Facebook  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.9

It's cool stuff right home, Marcus Paff and Reggie Rizzou, coming at you with some of the more

0:35.1

interesting stories of the day. On today's

0:37.6

episode, why exactly do dogs wag their tails? There's more to it than you think. Plus,

0:42.5

scientists have spotted the oldest known black hole yet. And on this day in history, we look

0:47.9

at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Coming up, I'm cool stuff right home. Exciting news from a galaxy far, far away.

0:56.1

Astronomers have discovered the earliest known black hole, and it's massive.

1:01.1

Located more than 13 billion light years away at the center of a galaxy known as Gn-Z11,

1:08.7

the matter-eating phenomenon is approximately 1.6 million times as massive as our son.

1:15.9

Think about that for a minute. That's almost incomprehensible.

1:19.1

Will Sullivan of Smithsonian reports the discovery was made using the James Webb Telescope, which

1:24.9

itself was launched back in December of 2021.

1:28.3

Per the publication, Scientific American, Webb's high resolution and high sensitivity instruments,

1:33.3

allow it to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the well-known Hubble Space Telescope.

1:39.3

Robert Maillino is an astrophysicist at the UK's University of Cambridge, and he co-authored

1:45.1

the study detailing this particular discovery.

1:48.2

He told Newsweek, quote, it's not its age that is surprising, it is the fact that it is already

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