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We believe that science is for everyone - visit our website to find out more: https://www.rigb.org Ziri Younsi is a UKRI Stephen Hawking Fellow at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory After graduating from the University of Cambridge and subsequently UCL Ziri began working within the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in 2014 first as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Frankfurt and later as a Leverhulme Trust Fellow at UCL Product links on this page may be affiliate links which means it won't cost you any extra but we may earn a small commission if you decide to purchase through the link The Royal Institution is an independent charity dedicated to connecting people to the world of science Contact us What we do About us    Jobs Make your next event one to remember at our unique central London venue Find out more Support us in our charitable mission to create opportunities for the public and scientists to explore science together Donate online Join the Ri More ways to support Find us Museum Licensing Shop The Royal Institution of Great Britain was granted a royal charter in 1800 and is registered as a charity in England and Wales (227938) The CHRISTMAS LECTURES® are a registered trademark the Belgian actress Lubna Azabal will award the Short Film Palme d’or and the 3 La Cinef prizes the Festival de Cannes’ selection dedicated to film schools The Jury will discover the 11 films in the Short Film Competition and the 18 films in La Cinef selection unveiled today The path is made by walking.” Antonio Machado The Festival de Cannes is one of those paths we dream of crossing The focus on young filmmakers presenting their short films and the paths they have taken to get there I can’t wait to discover the richness of it all It’s a journey that I want to be demanding and kind To be selected in this mythical place is a message of love and to preside over it is a source of pride 11 shorts will be presented this year in Competition The Short Film Palme d’or will be handed by the Jury chaired by Lubna Azabal during the closing ceremony of the 77th Festival de Cannes For its 27th edition La Cinef has selected 18 shorts (14 live-action and 4 animated films) from among the 2,263 submitted by film schools all over the world This year’s programme reflects the geographic mobility of film students a Russian in the Czech Republic and three shorts made at American schools by Russian The Jury will hand over La Cinef prizes at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday 23 May in the Buñuel Theatre Find all the news of the Festival de Cannes We use cookies to improve your experience Please click Accept or read our Privacy Policy Home » News » Elmhurst U to Host Two Talks for National Coming Out Day Elmhurst University will host two lectures in October around National Coming Out Day the first woman chaplain for the New York City Fire Department will present the lecture “Queer and Faithful.” Ordained in the United Church of Christ Kansfield also serves as pastor of Greenpoint Reformed Church in New York City a collection of ministry adventures told around the theme of living out one’s spiritual values Kansfield’s talk begins at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, in Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel. Admission is free and all are welcome. Reservations are encouraged, at elmhurst.edu/cultural This event is part of the Religious Literacy Project at Elmhurst University the University will host the annual William R director of public policy at Equality Illinois the state’s civil rights organization for LGBTQIA+ people “Telling Our Stories: Moving Illinois Forward for LGBTQIA+ Justice,” will highlight legislative initiatives focused on equality in Illinois Admission is free and all are welcome. Reservations are encouraged, at elmhurst.edu/cultural Johnson Intercultural Lecture is held each fall to coincide with National Coming Out Day and is part of the University’s commitment to the history an Elmhurst alumnus and the first openly gay person to be ordained by a mainline Christian denomination Questions? Email [email protected] The result provides overwhelming evidence that the object is indeed a black hole and yields valuable clues about the workings of such giants which are thought to reside at the centre of most galaxies produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration uses observations from a worldwide network of radio telescopes and is a long-anticipated look at the massive object that sits at the very centre of our galaxy Scientists had previously seen stars orbiting around something invisible and very massive at the centre of the Milky Way This strongly suggested that this object – known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* pronounced "sadge-ay-star”) – is a black hole and today’s image provides the first direct visual evidence of it Although we cannot see the black hole itself glowing gas around it reveals a tell-tale signature: a dark central region (called a “shadow”) surrounded by a bright ring-like structure The new view captures light bent by the powerful gravity of the black hole which is four million times more massive than our Sun Dr Ziri Younsi (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) EHT Collaboration member and co-author on the research papers describing the new findings said: “Our results are the strongest evidence to date that a black hole resides at the centre of our galaxy This black hole is the glue that holds the galaxy together It is key to our understanding of how the Milky Way formed and will evolve in the future “Producing this image is the result of a monumental effort by hundreds of scientists over five years It was especially challenging because of the haze of stars and gas in between Earth and the Galactic Centre as well as the fact that the pattern of light from Sgr A* changed quickly But now we have comprehensive findings and this work opens a new chapter in our understanding of black holes.” MediaCentral Widget Placeholderhttps://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/9GFeJ9gb a UKRI Stephen Hawking Fellow at UCL who has recently been appointed to the EHT Science Council and is the author of one of only two codes used to generate the entire library of nearly 2 million simulated images of Sgr A* from the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics said: “We were stunned by how well the size of the ring agreed with predictions from Einstein’sTheory of General Relativity These unprecedented observations have greatly improved our understanding of what happens at the very centre of our galaxy.” The EHT team's results are being published today in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters Because the black hole is about 27,000 light-years away from Earth it appears to us to have about the same size in the sky as an orange on the Moon which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single “Earth-sized” virtual telescope The EHT observed Sgr A* on multiple nights similar to using a long exposure time on a camera The breakthrough follows the EHT collaboration’s 2019 release of the first image of a black hole at the centre of the more distant Messier 87 galaxy MediaCentral Widget Placeholderhttps://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/gcdajhDJ EHT scientist Dr Keiichi Asada from the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics said: “Now we can study the differences between these two supermassive black holes [and] can go much further in testing gravity in these extreme environments than ever before.” This achievement was considerably more difficult than for M87* Department of Astronomy of the University of Arizona said: “The gas in the vicinity of both black holes orbits at nearly light speed But where gas takes days to weeks to orbit the larger M87* for the much smaller Sgr A* an orbit completes in mere minutes This means the brightness and pattern of the gas around Sgr A* changes rapidly as the EHT observes it.” The researchers had to develop sophisticated new tools that accounted for the gas movement around Sgr A* The image of the Sgr A* black hole is an average of the different images the team extracted finally revealing the giant lurking at the centre of our galaxy for the first time Progress on the EHT continues: a major observation campaign in March 2022 included more telescopes than ever before The ongoing expansion of the EHT network and significant technological upgrades will allow scientists to share even more impressive images as well as movies of black holes in the near future We're on a mission to spread meaningful content far and wide By subscribing I accept the terms of use and privacy policy. The new images are from observations taken in April 2018 one year after the first observations of M87* in April 2017 which resulted in the first ever image of a black hole bright ring of emission of the same size as was found in 2017 The brightness peak of the ring has shifted by about 30º compared to the images from 2017 which is consistent with theoretical understanding of variability from turbulent material around black holes uses observations from a worldwide network of radio telescopes and the new images feature the first participation of the newly commissioned Greenland Telescope as well as a dramatically improved recording rate across the array of telescopes The images are presented in a paper in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics of the Academia Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan said: “A fundamental requirement of science is to be able to reproduce results “Confirmation of the ring in a completely new data set is a huge milestone for our collaboration and a strong indication that we are looking at a black hole shadow and the material orbiting around it.” Dr Ziri Younsi (Mullard Space Science Laboratory at UCL) who is also a member of the EHT Science Council said: “These independent new data provide important validation of our previous results “It is very exciting that over the course of a year the brightest part of the bright ring encircling the black hole shadow has shifted by about 30 degrees “This shift is something that was predicted in 2019 and is wonderful to now observe showing the turbulent and dynamical nature of the supermassive black hole as matter orbits around its event horizon “The brightest part of the ring appears brighter as its material is likely coming towards us but it may also be where the material is more strongly magnetised It might be that this bright area coincides with the base of the black hole’s jet as it is about where we would expect this base to be “The fact that the ring size remains essentially unchanged as predicted by Einstein's General Relativity It tells us that powerful gravitational lensing of light from the surrounding material is important and this is therefore most likely a black hole with an event horizon.”  The object M87* is the beating heart of the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and lives 55 million light years away from Earth The first image of the black hole revealed a bright circular ring Further analysis of the data also revealed the structure of M87* in polarized light giving greater insight into the geometry of the magnetic field and the nature of the plasma around the black hole The Greenland Telescope joined the EHT for the first time in 2018 just five months after its construction was completed far above the Arctic Circle This new telescope significantly improved the image fidelity of the EHT array The Large Millimeter Telescope also participated for the first time with its full 50 m surface The EHT array was also upgraded to observe in four frequency bands around 230 GHz the EHT also serves as a technology testbed for cutting-edge developments in high-frequency radio interferometry a PhD candidate at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) in Spain said: “Advancing scientific endeavours requires continuous enhancement in data quality and analysis techniques The inclusion of the Greenland Telescope in our array filled critical gaps in our earth-sized telescope and the forthcoming 2024 observations witness improvements to the array fuelling our enthusiasm to push the frontiers of black hole astrophysics.” The image of M87* taken in 2018 is remarkably similar to what was found in 2017 with a dark central region and one side of the ring brighter than the other The mass and distance of M87* will not appreciably increase throughout a human lifetime so general relativity predicts that the ring diameter should stay the same from year to year The stability of the measured diameter in the images from 2017 to 2018 robustly supports the conclusion that M87* is well described by general relativity a former graduate student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) now a postdoctoral fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California said: “One of the remarkable properties of a black hole is that its radius is strongly dependent on only one quantity: its mass “Since M87* is not accreting material (which would increase its mass) at a rapid rate general relativity tells us that its radius will remain fairly unchanged over human history It’s pretty exciting to see that our data confirm this prediction.” the EHT conducted successful observations in 2021 and 2022 and is scheduled to observe in the first half of 2024 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras the film interweaves Goldin’s past and present the deeply personal and urgently political from P.A.I.N.’s actions at renowned art institutions to Goldin’s photography of her friends and peers through her epic “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” and her legendary 1989 a group Goldin founded to shame museums into rejecting Sackler money destigmatize addiction and promote harm reduction they orchestrated protests to call attention to the toxic philanthropy of the Sackler family ignited the opioid epidemic with its blockbuster drug At the core of the film are Goldin’s art works “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency”; “The Other Side”; “Sisters Saints and Sibyls”; and “Memory Lost.” In these works Goldin captures her friendships with beauty and raw tenderness Contact us Press Office Subscribe to the Newsletter and get the latest info on our programmes and initiatives Subscribe Dive into one of the most absorbing topics in astrophysics A place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out Black holes have been puzzling astrophysicists for decades but in recent years we've made some thrilling advancements in observing and understanding this phenomenon black holes have had people coming to our historical lecture there (or joining us online) to satisfy their endless curiosity about the subject We've compiled a playlist of the most popular science talks on black holes In our latest talk on this enthralling topic astrophysicist Ziri Younsi explores how photographing black holes went from being science fiction to becoming science fact when the Event Horizon Telescope made it reality in 2019 the Sun orbits a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way over 4 million times more massive than the Sun itself Becky Smethurst dives into how supermassive black holes are formed What would happen if you jumped into a black hole? James Beacham particle physicist at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN explores what happens when the fabric of reality gets twisted beyond recognition Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose discusses his work from impossible triangles and tilings that bear his name to the mathematical underpinnings of black holes We put our most popular science talks about black holes in one handy YouTube playlist for you to watch at your own pace (or binge-watch Miss Earth 2022 Mina Sue Choi (L) crowns Drita Ziri during the pageant’s final night on Dec The moment her name was announced on stage the final night showing how moved she was by the achievement The audience found her victory convincing and it aligned with predictions from the beauty pageant website Missosology which had foreseen the Albanian contestant taking the title before the finals is currently a Tourism Management student and a TV host She was previously the second runner-up at the Miss Globe 2022 contest Her engagement in numerous social activities including a breast cancer awareness campaign She performed well throughout the three-week competition in Vietnam and she exhibited confidence in the finals during various performances and an English Q&A segment Miss Earth 2023 Drita Ziri during the pageant’s Q&A portion on Dec Yllana Marie Aduan from the Philippines was crowned Miss Air, while Do Thi Lan Anh from Vietnam was named Miss Water and Cora Blialt from Thailand became Miss Fire Anh also won the Best Appearance award for the most impressive appearance at the Welcome Event The pageant’s final night lasted three hours and was hosted by British MC James Deakin and Miss Vietnam 2016 runner-up Huynh Thi Thuy Dung Barbadian singer Shontelle and Vietnamese artists Mono and Johnny Duong contributed to enlivening the evening with musical performances which took place in Vietnam from the end of November saw contestants engage in various activities in Ho Chi Minh City The semi-finals were then held in Da Lat on Dec This marks the second time Miss Earth has been held in Vietnam the first being in the south-central coastal province of Khanh Hoa in 2010 Email: evne@vnexpress.netTel: 028 7300 9999 - Ext 8556 Democratic and Republican students at the University of Illinois at Springfield got together Friday evening to share some pizza and watch the first presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain Student leaders from both parties said people are excited about the race this isn’t the first election where I can vote and they are going to get to make a choice that’s going to reflect on their world for the next few years Friday’s bipartisan event drew a few dozen people in the Great Room at Lincoln Hall and grabbed a couple OF pieces of pizza before they dimmed the lights and sat down to watch the debate agreed that students are excited about the upcoming election “We’ve seen a lot of new registered voters,” Ziri said This is an important election for our generation a master’s degree student in political studies from Springfield doesn’t think the race is as tight as some of the polls indicate “The young people are going to come out for Obama,” Ziri said “The young people are not as represented in the polls because of cell phones a Glasford resident who has a double major in legal studies and political science said Friday’s debate will set the tone for the rest of the campaign “I do think there are a lot of undecided voters,” Guiliano said “I think if you polled people here tonight you’d find that we’ve already picked sides Seen in polarised light for the first time this new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has revealed a magnetic field structure strikingly similar to that of the black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy suggesting that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes This similarity also hints toward a hidden jet in Sgr A* The results were published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters Scientists unveiled the first image of Sgr A*— which is approximately 27,000 light-years away from Earth — in 2022 revealing that while the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is more than a thousand times smaller and less massive than M87’s This made scientists wonder whether the two shared common traits outside of their looks the team decided to study Sgr A* in polarised light Previous studies of light around M87* revealed that the magnetic fields around the black hole giant allowed it to launch powerful jets of material back into the surrounding environment the new images have revealed that the same may be true for Sgr A* co-author of the new papers and a member of the EHT Science Council said: “It is very exciting to see the first polarised images of the black hole in the heart of our galaxy These observations reveal much more information about the magnetic fields surrounding the black hole and will improve our ability to model accreting black holes in the future “It is remarkable that the polarisation structure of Sgr A* is so similar to that of the M87 black hole which we know possesses a prodigious relativistic jet This exciting new study hints at the possibility of a jet hiding near the event horizon of Sgr A*.” co-lead of the project from the Center for Astrophysics said: “What we’re seeing now is that there are strong and organised magnetic fields near the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy “Along with Sgr A* having a strikingly similar polarisation structure to that seen in the much larger and more powerful M87* black hole we’ve learned that strong and ordered magnetic fields are critical to how black holes interact with the gas and matter around them.”  electromagnetic wave that allows us to see objects light oscillates in a preferred orientation and we call it “polarised.” Although polarised light surrounds us to human eyes it is indistinguishable from “normal” light particles whirling around magnetic field lines impart a polarisation pattern perpendicular to the field This allows astronomers to see in increasingly vivid detail what’s happening in black hole regions and map their magnetic field lines project co-lead and Harvard Black Hole Initiative Fellow said: “By imaging polarised light from hot glowing gas near black holes we are directly inferring the structure and strength of the magnetic fields that thread the flow of gas and matter that the black hole feeds on and ejects “Polarised light teaches us a lot more about the astrophysics and mechanisms that take place as a black hole feeds.” But imaging black holes in polarised light isn’t as easy as putting on a pair of polarised sunglasses which is changing so fast that it doesn’t sit still for pictures Imaging the supermassive black hole requires sophisticated tools above and beyond those previously used for capturing M87* The images of both supermassive black holes in polarised light provide new ways to compare black holes of different sizes and masses the images are likely to reveal even more secrets of black holes and their similarities or differences The EHT collaboration involves more than 300 researchers from Africa The international collaboration is working to capture the most detailed black hole images ever obtained by creating a virtual Earth-sized telescope The EHT has conducted several observations since 2017 and is scheduled to observe Sgr A* again in April 2024 the images improve as the EHT incorporates new telescopes Planned expansions for the next decade will enable high-fidelity movies of Sgr A* and could allow astronomers to observe similar polarisation features in other black holes extending the EHT into space will provide sharper images of black holes than ever before Funnelback feed: https://cms-feed.ucl.ac.uk/s/search.json?collection=drupal-mathematical-...Double click the feed URL above to edit Tweets by uclmaps  re-joined) UCL in 2018 as a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow before which I worked at the Goethe University of Frankfurt as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow I was a PhD student at MSSL before I left the UK in 2014 my main research focus being on interpreting observations from systems containing compact objects like black holes and neutron stars These systems are unique laboratories for testing many of our physical theories in regimes inaccessible to experiments here on Earth I combine theory and numerical simulations of plasmas and radiative emissions from compact object environments to interpret data obtained from missions like the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) so that we can learn more about the nature of these mysterious objects I'm especially interested in how systems comprising black holes and neutron stars can be used to probe fundamental physics and yield novel tests of general relativity (Einstein's theory of gravity) What are some of your favourite things about working in the department How have you found it different to previous jobs set in the Surrey hills with beautiful views of the countryside I enjoy the fact that we have beautiful grounds and even our own croquet lawn and swimming pool It has a relaxed and open atmosphere and is a lovely place to work I appreciate the unique character and layout of the building and the resulting opportunities to interact with people in different research groups I'm also very fortunate to both work with and learn from an excellent community of scientific colleagues I’ve had the privilege to work with colleagues across several different teams and departments within the wider UCL community It’s been a genuine pleasure to get to know so many interesting and talented colleagues UCL is an impressively diverse place to work and I very much enjoy the warm atmosphere and inclusive community we have or future projects that you are looking forward to working on YouTube Widget Placeholderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxtWATA4B0g I co-lead the Fundamental Physics working group of the next-generation EHT (ngEHT) a more advanced instrument with greater sensitivity and resolving power than the current EHT I'm very excited about our ongoing and future work in the EHT and ngEHT projects The field of horizon-scale imaging of black holes is just beginning and I’m delighted that there has been so much interest in our results from both the scientific community and the public These first images are pioneering measurements and I feel that in the next few years this field will reach a new stage I'm also a member of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission as part of the UCL team I'm keen on exploring what future LISA observations of coalescing compact objects can reveal about the physical properties of black holes Whilst missions like LISA won't be launched until at least the mid-2030s there is an enormous amount of exciting work to be explored and how did you find adapting to living in London I was born in Stoke-on-Trent but grew up in London As a child I always enjoyed playing sports I studied Taekwondo and was a competitive club swimmer and I also love long walks (when the weather is nice!) visiting friends and family (many of whom live abroad these days) I appreciate the many theatres and shows in London and the breadth of international cuisine available Funnelback feed: https://cms-feed.ucl.ac.uk/s/search.json?collection=drupal-mathematical-...Double click the feed URL above to edit Get in contact to appear in a spotlight Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism MANILA, Philippines – Albania’s Drita Ziri was crowned Miss Earth 2023 on Friday night She succeeded South Korea’s Mina Sue Choi Miss Earth is an annual international competition held to celebrate “the many beautiful and varied forms of fauna and to further promote the preservation and conservation of our planet.” Ziri bested 84 other contestants who vied for the title of Miss Earth – one of the four major international pageants in the world along with Miss Universe This made her the 22nd beauty queen to clinch the highly coveted Miss Earth crown The new Miss Earth also made history as the first Albanian woman to win the Miss Earth crown and to win in any major international pageant She was also the second Miss Earth titleholder crowned during a physical pageant since the competitions were held online in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic As the new ambassadress of the Miss Earth based in the Philippines which has the distinct advocacy for environmental protection The new Miss Earth is also expected to use her platform to raise awareness and influence others to help save the planet Ziri also became the first Miss Earth titleholder to wear the new crown designed by Long Beach Pearl, a Vietnamese jewelry company. Long Beach Pearl is also the creator of the sakura-themed crown of Miss International Her elemental court includes Philippines’ Yllana Aduana as Miss Earth Air Vietnam’s Đỗ Thị Lan Anh as Miss Earth Water and Thailand’s Cora Bliaut as Miss Earth Fire the top 8 finalists who fell short in entering the top 4 were announced as runner-ups Next year’s edition of Miss Earth will be held once again in Vietnam nobody had ever seen a black hole and the only way to prove their existence was indirectly when the first ever image of one was created by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) developed by a team of 60 institutes - including UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) - with the aim of transforming our understanding of black holes The EHT’s black hole image was created by using new techniques to link up existing radio telescopes distributed across the globe to create one giant instrument With an aperture that is almost the diameter of the Earth the EHT provides close to the greatest resolving power achievable from the surface of our planet Research on radiation transport in strong gravity carried out by MSSL’s Dr Ziri Younsi and Professor Kinwah Wu has led to Dr Younsi’s development of physical frameworks and computational tools which contributed directly to the EHT’s ability to visualise material orbiting the black hole at the centre of another galaxy producing the first ever direct image of a black hole has captured the public imagination via extensive media coverage across the world reaching tens of millions of people in the UK and over three billion globally Dr Younsi was the sole UK representative from the EHT team and as such was asked to provide expert scientific commentary on black holes and astrophysics to local and national newspapers entertainment magazines including Rolling Stone and Vice and television programmes including BBC Breakfast ‘Have I got News for You?’ and a dedicated BBC documentary: ‘How to see a black hole: The Universe’s greatest mystery’ the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and the Royal Mint have chosen the EHT’s image to represent astrophysics on their memorabilia informed by Dr Younsi’s calculations at MSSL appears on a stamp as part of a collection to commemorate the society’s 200th anniversary and his calculations feature as cover art throughout a limited edition black hole 50p coin the UCL duo delivered talks to thousands of secondary school students between 2015 and 2019 showing the real-life applications of scientific concepts and frameworks and inspiring the next generation of astrophysicists Through 21 public talks at the likes of the Bloomsbury Festival and European Astrofest Dr Younsi has helped the public get to grips with black hole research in a more accessible way with one attendee commenting: “Your presentation was captivating and explained so much background to the audience and allowed them to understand so much more of what they were looking at.”  The unprecedented level of global teamwork behind the EHT has won its achievement the RAS’s Group Achievement Award (for which Dr Younsi delivered the acceptance talk at the 10th December 2021 RAS Ordinary Meeting) UBS Bank and the UK Government Department of Work and Pensions have both invited Dr Younsi to give a keynote speech and seminar on new strategies for collaboration on large-scale projects influencing thinking in both industry and government The use of black hole images to raise public awareness and interest in astrophysics UCL research has contributed to a historic achievement: the first ever image of a black hole UCL’s Dr Ziri Younsi has ignited public interest and awareness of black holes and the real-life applications of astrophysics bringing the research behind the picture to an audience of millions Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time Residents of a quiet residential cul-de-sac in Sydney’s south-west have expressed their shock after their neighbour of decades was allegedly stabbed to death in his home by his step-grandson Police were called to the home in Hillview Street in Roselands about 9.55pm on Wednesday Joe Ziri pictured with his wife before her death from COVID-19 in 2021.Credit: Facebook Emergency services arrived to find Ziri dead with stab wounds Two officers also had to be taken to St George Hospital to be treated for chemical burns after finding hydrochloric acid – normally used as a pool chemical – had been thrown around the home The two officers have since been released from hospital He remains under police guard in hospital and is undergoing treatment for injuries sustained prior to his arrest Neighbours said Hillview Street had for decades played host to cricket games for the children while the adults happily watched sipping coffee and chatting together on their front porches Police at the scene after the fatal stabbing of Joe Ziri in Roselands.Credit: Nine It’s why the events of Wednesday night came as such a shock to the little street in Roselands Neighbour Susie Fakhry said she had known the Ziri family since the ’70s The family had previously lived on nearby Flora Street before buying the house on Hillview about 20 years ago He used to do a lot of maintenance at home Neighbour Susie Fakhry first met the Ziri family in 1977.Credit: Sarah Keoghan also spoke of Ziri with great fondness on Thursday The two would regularly have coffee at each other’s homes and said the family was shattered when Ziri’s wife died of COVID-19 at the end of 2021 Farhat said Ziri was a machine operator for 35 years before retiring Anthony Ziri (left) found his father dead in the home on Wednesday night and called police All his children would play cricket out the front of my house,” he said Farhat said he felt for Ziri’s son Anthony who found his father’s body on Wednesday night He made the call to police and has since spoken to detectives It was Anthony’s stepson who was taken into police custody Fire and Rescue NSW said eight fire trucks attended the incident and crews worked with police to ventilate the home to help in setting up a crime scene Fire and Rescue NSW also provided NSW Ambulance with appropriate protective clothing to enable them to enter the home The alleged attacker allegedly fled after the incident but was found by officers nearby and arrested about 11.15pm Campsie Police Area Commander Superintendent Sheridan Waldau said detectives had been unable to interview the 24-year-old due to his hospital treatment “We’re not sure of the circumstances as to exactly what happened last night as we haven’t been able to speak to the 24-year-old male at this stage so how it actually occurred last night we’re not quite sure,” she said The Morning Edition newsletter is our guide to the day’s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. 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Turagusavye usome ikinyamakuru Umunara w’Inderetsi gifise umutwe uvuga ngo «Ubwami bw’Imana ni iki?» Raba inyishu z’ibi bibazo: Umwami w’Ubwami bw’Imana ni nde? Ubwami bw’Imana buzoganza isi ryari? Ubwami bw’Imana buzokora iki? yarigishije cane ibijanye n’Ubwami bw’Imana Haraciye imyaka amajana abantu basenga basaba ko ubwo Bwami buza vyo Bibiliya ivuga birashobora kugutangaza Ni ibiki bitwemeza ko iyi si izorusimba mbere ikaba nziza kuruta Abahinga bamwebamwe mu bijanye n’ibidukikije bavuga ko abantu bariko barakora ibintu bibangamira ibidukikije bishobora gutuma mbere bimwebimwe bihona Nimuganire ikibazo gishingiye kuri Bibiliya canke mwige ibindi ku vyerekeye Ivyabona vya Yehova Umuvandimwe Sanderson avugana n’abavoronteri n’impunzi ziri muri Polonye Mu gitondo cyo ku Cyumweru tariki ya 1 Gicurasi 2022 umuvandimwe Mark Sanderson wo mu Nteko Nyobozi y’Abahamya ba Yehova aherekejwe n’abavandimwe batatu bo muri Komite y’Ibiro by’Ishami yasuye abavandimwe na bashiki bacu bahungiye muri polonye bavuye muri Ukraine umuvandimwe Sanderson n’abari bamuherekeje biyumviye inkuru z’abavandimwe na bashiki bacu bahungiye muri Polonye kandi babibutsa ko Inteko Nyobozi ibakunda kandi ko izakomeza kubashyigikira Ibumoso ugana iburyo: Umuvandimwe Tomasz Wolczko wo muri Komite y’Ibiro by’Ishami byo muri Polonye Vesa Väänänen wo muri Komite y’Ibiro by’Ishami byo muri Polonye na Tommi Kauko wo muri Komite y’Ibiro by’Ishami byo muri Finilande bakoze urugendo rw’ibirometero birenga 2 500 basura abavandimwe na bashiki bacu bacumbikiwe Harimo abari ku mazu ane y’amakoraniro n’Amazu y’Ubwami atandukanye Nanone basuye abavoronteri ku mupaka wa Polonye na Ukraine Umuvandimwe wo muri Ukraine yaravuze ati: “Kuba baradusuye byaduteye inkunga cyane kandi biraduhumuriza bimeze nko kunywa afutse umuntu afite inyota.” Mushiki wacu wo muri Ukraine yaravuze ati: “Twatunguwe no kubona badusuye na we wo muri Ukraine yagize ati: “Igihe twageraga muri Polonye ariko ubu dushimira Yehova ko dufite ibyo dukeneye byose.” Itsinda ry’abashoferi n’abavoronteri bari ku Nzu y’Amakoraniro y’i Stęszew Basuye abageze mu za bukuru bavuye muri Ukraine ku Nzu y’Ubwami y’i Radymno umwe mu bagize Komite y’Ibiro by’Ishami byo muri Polonye yagize ati: “Byakomeje ukwizera Kwanjye kwibonera ukuntu Yehova ayobora ibintu byose Yehova yatanze amabwiriza yari akenewe mu gihe gikwiriye abinyujije ku Nteko Nyobozi no ku bavandimwe na bashiki bacu bitanze kugira ngo bafashe abandi.” Abavoronteri bari ku Nzu y’Amakoraniro ya Stęszew muri Polonye aho imfashanyo zipakirwa kandi zikoherezwa Nubwo abavandimwe na bashiki bacu batorohewe n’ibi bihe, bakomeje kwita kuri bagenzi babo, kandi babona ibyishimo Yesu yasezeranyije bibonerwa mu gutanga.—Ibyakozwe 20:35 Imirimo yo kubaka ahantu hashya hazajya hasurwa kuri Beteli y’i Patterson irakomeje Mu Kigo cya Watchtower Gikorerwamo Imirimo Irebana no Kwigisha kiri i Patterson hari kubakwa inyubako izashyirwamo ahantu hashya hazajya hasurwa Iyo nyubako izaba ifite ubuso bwa metero kare 2 787 Byitezwe ko izuzura mu mpeshyi yo mu mwaka wa 2023 Muri yo nyubako hazashyirwamo inzu ndagamurage igizwe n’ahantu hatatu hazashyirwa amafoto ahoraho n’ahandi hazashyirwa amafoto bahinduranya Izaba ifite ubushobozi bwo kwakira abashyitsi bagera ku 1 200 buri munsi Nanone inyubako nyinshi ziri muri icyo kibanza zizavugururwa n’ibindi bintu biri mu mazu ariko bikaba bishaje bizasimbuzwa Imirimo yo gusana no kubaka inzu nshya igeze hafi muri kimwe cya kabiri ngo irangire Abavandimwe bagenzura uwo mushinga bahuye n’inzitizi zitandukanye bitewe n’icyorezo cya COVID-19 Icyo cyorezo cyatumye imirimo y’ubwubatsi ihagarara bitewe n’uko kubona ibikoresho by’ubwubatsi bitari byoroshye hari aho bageze sima yo kumena beto ibabana nke ariko abavandimwe babashije kumena beto ahantu hanini hari hateganyijwe kandi harangiriye ku gihe bari bateganyije Ikindi kandi nubwo ibiciro by’ibyuma byari byarazamutse abavandimwe babashije kubigura amafaranga make bitewe n’uko bari baragiranye amasezerano n’ababicuruza mbere y’igihe Igihe Beteli yari muri gahunda ya guma mu rugo abavoronteri bashoboye gukorera mu ngo maze imirimo yo gukora ibishushanyo mbonera n’indi myiteguro irakomeza Hari igihe guhura n’abayobozi b’umugi wo muri ako gace bitashobokaga bitewe n’ingamba zo kwirinda iki cyorezo zari zarashyizweho kandi na byo byatumye hari ibitihuta Icyakora komite ishinzwe uyu mushinga yabonye ibyangombwa byose yari ikeneye kandi ibibonera igihe bitewe n’uko yakoranye n’ibiro bya Beteli n’abakozi ba leta Ibyo byakozwe hifashishijwe ikoranabuhanga rya videwo n’abavoronteri bakorera mu rugo Igihe gahunda ya guma mu rugo yari ihagaze ho gato na bwo gutumira abavoronteri ngo baze ku kibanza ntibyashobokaga byarashobokaga gutumira abavoronteri bakora iminsi itanu ngo baze babe ku kibanze maze batangire akazi Mushiki wacu witwa Jennifer Paul yatumiriwe kuza gufasha kuri uyu mushinga mu gihe k’icyorezo Yerekeje kuri uwo mushinga agira ati: “Nkunda imirimo isaba imbaraga Icyakora icyo nkunda si imirimo ahubwo ni abantu bayikora Bimfasha kwibonera uko umuryango wa Yehova ukora.” Ubu hari abavoronteri bagera kuri 400 bakora kuri uyu mushinga wo kuvugurura no kubaka ahantu hashya ho gusura i Patterson. Abagera kuri 350 bakorera ahakorerwa imirimo. Abavandimwe na bashiki bacu bakomeje kwibonera uko Yehova atanga ibikenewe byose kugira ngo uyu mushinga ugende neza.—1 Ngoma 29:16. Abavandimwe babiri bari gucukura umuyoboro uzajya utwara amazi Mushiki wacu uri gukora insinga z’ibyuma bishyushya bikanakonjesha mu nyubako iri kuvugururwa Umuvandimwe ugiye kuzamura ibyuma bubakisha, akoresheje imashini ikoreshwa mu kubaka inyubako ndende Ifoto yafatiwe mu kirere igaragaza ahantu hashya hazajya hasurwa mu kigo gikorerwamo imirimo irebana no kwigisha Umuvandimwe uri gukata icyuma kiri ku igorofa rya kabiri Imashini ikoreshwa mu kubaka inyubako ndende iri kuzamura ku gisenge, icyuma kizajya gishyushya cyangwa kigakonjesha mu nzu y’ibiro Bashiki bacu bakora mu bwubatsi bari kwisekera Abavoronteri bari gukorera ku gisenge ari ku mugoroba Inzego z’umutekano muri Mali ziri guhiga abarashi batatu bacyekwaho kugira isano n’igitero cyagabwe kuri hoteli mu murwa mukuru, Bamako, ku wa Gatanu kikica abantu 19. Abarashi babiri nabo barishwe nyuma y’uko ingabo kabuhariwe zinjiriye muri hoteli zibohora abashyitsi babarirwa muri mirongo bari bafashwe bugwate. Umuyobozi umwe mu bitaro bikuru bya Bamako yabwiye BBC ko imirambo 21 yajyanywe mu nzu y’uburuhukiro bw’ibitaro. Al-Qaeda ndetse n’umutwe wa kiyisilamu wa al-Murabitoun uyishamikiyeho muri Maghreb byavuze ko byagabye icyo gitero. Perezida Ibrahim Boubacar Keita yatangaje iminsi 10 y’amategeko adasanzwe n’iminsi itatu y’icyunamo. Abakozi n’abantu barenga 130 bari bacumbitse muri hoteli babohowe igihe ingabo kabuhariwe za Mali, ingabo zidasanzwe z’ubufaransa ndetse n’abasirikare bavuye ku rugerero bo muri Leta Zunze Ubumwe za Amerika bigabaga muri hoteli Radisson Blu ku wa Gatanu bakarangiza ifatwa bugwate. Ibiro ntaramakuru Reuters byavuze ko mu bishwe hari harimo n’abanyemari b’Abashinwa, kandi perezida w’Ubushinwa, Xi Jinping yise iki gitero ko ari “ubugome n’ubunyamaswa”. Umunyamerika nawe yishwe, perezida Barack Obama yavuze ko iki gitero ari urundi rwibutso ko icyorezo cy’iterabwoba cyugarije ibihugu byinshi. Minisitiri w’Ububanyi n’amahanga w’Ubwongereza Philip Hammond yavuze ko Abongereza batatu ntacyo babaye. Perezida Keita yavuze ko Mali “izakora ibishoboka byose mu kirandura iterabwoba” mu gihugu. Mbere gato hari amakuru yavugaga ko abantu bagera kuri 27 bapfuye. Umukozi wa LONI, wasabye kudatangazwa amazina, yavuze ko imirambo 12 yabonywe mu cyumba cyo hasi indi 15 iboneka mu igorofa rya kabiri. Ntibisobanutse neza umubare w’abarwanyi bagize uruhare muri iki gitero. Abatangabuhamya bavuga ko abantu bagera kuri 13 binjiye muri hoteli barasa, banasakuza ngo “Imana ni nkuru!” mu Cyarabu. Cyakora ku wa Gatanu kompanyi Rezidor Group, ny’iri hoteli yatewe, yavuze ko abantu babiri ari bo bagize uruhare. Umunyamakuru wa BBC, Frank Gardner, mu rwego rw’umutekano, avuga ko kwigamba kw’umutwe w’abarwanyi ba jihadi ushamikiye kuri al-Qaeda muri Sahara ari urwibutso ko igihugu kigihanganye n’ibitero by’abarwanyi. Muri 2013, ingabo z’Ubufaransa zashoboye kubohoza ibice binini byari byarafashwe n’imitwe y’abarwanyi muri Mali. Ariko umunyamakuru wacu avuga ko Mali ari igihugu kinini cyane kandi gifite imwe mu mipaka itarindwa byoroshye kuyicamo ikagira n’ubutaka butayoborwa aho abarwanyi ba jihadi bashoboye kwihisha bakagaba ibitero. Ariko kandi Mali ntiyanafashijwe no kuba byoroshye cyane kwinjiza intwaro mu gihugu zivuye muri Libiya cyangwa ibitero by’ubwicanyi hafi y’abaturanyi muri Nijeriya. Nta sano rirashyirwa kuri iki gitero no ku bitero by’I Paris byishe abantu 130 mu cyumweru gishize. You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience making last last Saturday the 9th anniversary of his passage That is what our stethoscope wielding friends would say They could be right but such a verdict doesn’t tell us the context in which an infection of the category of Hepatitis B could be fatal Millions are carrying on in spite of Hepatitis B infection Something has thus remained missing in terms of how Hepatitis B overwhelmed a one-man intellectual fortress such as the late Reuben Ziri it must have been as casually as it could be He was neither married nor did anybody who knew him very well see any women with him on any consistent basis he has been heard saying he was afraid of women What the foregone draws attention to is that social stresses associated with entanglement with the green bottles women and excessive quest for material wealth were not part of his problems If Hepatitis B is not such a killer but an absolutely treatable stuff and if stresses relating to money Ziri’s supervisor and shield against vicious tendency politics but who died abruptly in the late 1980s Tit bits pulled together suggest that exclusion related frustration and disappointment with society created the context in which Hepatitis B led to his death nine years ago on June 12, 2012. This claim compels us to go back to the beginning of the story. Intervention captured that beginning in a previous interview with Ziri by posing it as follows: When he entered the Department of History at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria in the late 1980s to pursue a Masters Degree the late National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities saying that the title of his proposed research was like attempting to break away from the ABU Zaria School of History in its approach to the study of the emirates of northern Nigeria Mahmud’s comment was significant in the context of the disputations in that highly politicized Department regarding the real character of the ruling elite in pre-colonial Nigeria With the title “History of Bida Emirate in the 20th Century: A Study in Colonialism and Transformation of Social Classes Reuben instantly cut the image of an icon if he proved that the ruling elements in the emirate of Bida could not be denied a class status independent of British colonialists” The intellectual bonding that developed between student and supervisor was such that it could be further claimed that if Dr Mahmud Modibbo Tukur never died abruptly in the late 1980s Reuben Ziri would most likely be a big name Historian today luxuriating with a powerful voice on matters History In the razor sharp camp cum tendency politics of the Department to lose a supportive supervisor was an unmitigated tragedy His admiration for academia and his self-imagination as an academic of that very Department of History in Zaria died with Tukur Even Tukur’s recommendation that his Master’s Degree thesis be upgraded to doctoral candidacy was blocked The gates of academic career were closed against him as far as ABU  It was too much of a shocker that a Ziri acknowledged by his teachers (particularly Tukur who had himself produced a highly regarded PhD thesis) and mates as something of a genius could confront such fate The World Council of Churches took note of his plea for scholarship so that he could go to Netherland But they conditioned the scholarship on a recommendation from a priest of the Anglican Church the Anglican Church being the church his father had served the official who was to write the recommendation played his own script According to information available to Intervention it was at this point he went back into hunting A theorist of his hunting career argues now that Ziri felt strongly about a return to nature at this point once he formed the impression that neither academics nor religion (the Church) wanted him it was his incomprehension of the paradox of a brilliant mind who was being rejected that led him to begin to distrust society But the behaviour of the Anglican Bishop is not where the story ended He was reconciling himself very slowly with the idea of teaching any other place other than the Department of History in Zaria The Department of History at the much younger IBB University Lapai in his Niger State in central Nigeria provided the opening But it flopped at the first attempt and would have most likely gone that way if the Pro-Chancellor at the time did not get to hear about it He said Ziri was the sort of person the university needed and should be given a job his frustration was building up instead of climbing down Intervention has been told that he found IBB University job frustrating He wanted an environment where he could really engage knowledge that place was not a replica of the ABU environment of History that got him stirring He has also once warned this reporter against leaving for academia He would say that in many of the courses he taught he never had more than two and half students irrespective of the number of students in the class That was his own way of decrying the quality of students nowadays Only the University of Ibadan could have saved the situation but Ibadan acted one minute too late With the upgrade of his MA thesis having been blocked Netherland scholarship gone with the wind but with the idea of a PhD still strong in his mental make-up the University of Ibadan and her School of History was the only place available He berthed there and presented a proposal that must have excited the Department especially coming from the Zaria School of History Ibadan must have looked forward to intellectual combat with a product of its rival school of History That was not to be because Ziri dropped out subsequently They sent a two-man search team which eventually traced their prized student to Niger State It would have been the moment he had been living for He was already in a kind of advanced stage of sickness Those who say he died of Hepatitis B would not be completely off the mark but so also those who would say there was a context to the fatal outcome of Hepatitis B He simply could not come to terms with a society he was seeing as having no respect for merit disrespectful of scholarship or anything serious The puzzle though is why his discreetness extended to his friends As his week-long host in the Government House he only needed to mention any medical challenge and the best medical attention in Jigawa State at that moment could have been his even if it meant inviting the personal attention of the then governor It was very clear he was sick even then but he always successfully argued it away and effortlessly continued with the two-some seminar we were holding It is now understood the few signs he manifested during that visit were the onset of the infection Reuben Ziri is dead and gone to meet his God There is nothing anyone can do about that again but he embodies a question for the possibility of a secure future Is Nigeria being organised in such a manner that the social order will detect the kind of exclusionary practices that greeted him to his incomprehension of it political parties and researchers thinking of how alienation flowing from such individual and collective encounters can endanger the system It is great to hear that his MA thesis has since been donated to the Nupe Emirate Council It would not be that surprising to hear someday that the thesis is being published into a book At a time of twisted understanding of identity his thesis would certainly throw more helpful lights on who we all think we are or are not and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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