Absolutely nothing against minimum wage going up but the public and private sector wage increases need to be across the board. This tweet sums it up perfectly. My job is full of stress and potentially dangerous situations and we're scrapping for a better then 1% pay offer 😡🤬
£26436.80 is the new min wage annual salary (40 hrs p/wk).
And as the min wage rises, regular salaries don't. So many people will begin to ask themselves 'why am I working this highly stressful job that needed qualifications and a tonne of bullshit paperwork and police checks just to earn 5k more a year than I would stacking shelves at Lidl?'
A black hole constitutes a region of spacetime where gravitational collapse has proceeded to such an extent that an event horizon forms—a null hypersurface marking the causal boundary beyond which the escape velocity equals or exceeds the speed of light in vacuum, c ≈ 2.99792458 × 10⁸ m s⁻¹. Within this boundary, all future-directed timelike and null geodesics terminate at a central singularity (in the idealized Schwarzschild or Kerr geometries), where spacetime curvature becomes infinite and classical general relativity breaks down.According to the no-hair theorem (supported by uniqueness results for stationary, axisymmetric, electrovacuum solutions of the Einstein field equations), astrophysical black holes are fully characterized by only three parameters in the Kerr–Newman family:Mass M
Specific angular momentum a = J/M (where J is angular momentum)
Electric charge Q (typically negligible in astrophysical contexts, Q ≈ 0)
Thus, observed black holes are effectively Kerr (rotating, uncharged) or Schwarzschild (non-rotating, uncharged) objects. Recent high-precision gravitational-wave observations of binary black hole mergers (e.g., events analyzed in 2025, including GW250114) have rigorously tested and confirmed the Kerr nature of post-merger remnants, along with Hawking's area theorem: the total horizon area A = 4π(r₊² + a²) cannot decrease over time, even during mergers, with the surface area increasing as predicted (ΔA ≥ 0).The event horizon itself remains causally disconnected from external observers due to infinite gravitational redshift; electromagnetic radiation emitted near or interior to r = r₊ (r₊ = M + √(M² - a²) in geometric units) is exponentially suppressed. Direct imaging is therefore impossible; instead, observations capture emission from matter in the immediate vicinity:Accretion disks — geometrically thin or thick flows of plasma spiraling inward, heated to ~10⁶–10⁹ K by viscous dissipation and magnetic reconnection, producing thermal and non-thermal radiation across X-ray to radio bands.
Photon ring — unstable photon orbits at ~1.5 r₊ (for Schwarzschild) create a bright, asymmetric ring via gravitational lensing of disk emission from the far side.
Relativistic jets — launched by Blandford–Znajek processes or magnetohydrodynamic extraction of rotational energy, often extending parsecs to megaparsecs.
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has imaged the shadow and photon ring of M87* (2019, refined in subsequent campaigns) and Sgr A* (2022, with ongoing polarization and variability studies through 2025–2026), providing direct tests of strong-field gravity, frame-dragging (Lense–Thirring effect), and magnetic field topology near the horizon.Recent advances (2025–2026) include:Confirmation of Hawking's area increase in merger ringdowns.
XRISM spectroscopy revealing warped, reflection-dominated iron lines indicative of near-maximal spin (a ≈ 0.998) in rapidly rotating systems.
JWST discoveries of overmassive supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at z > 8 (e.g., in "little red dots" and early quasars), with masses ≳ 10⁸ M_⊙ within ~500 Myr after the Big Bang, challenging standard Eddington-limited growth and favoring heavy/direct-collapse seeds or super-Eddington/hyper-accretion phases.
Stellar-mass black holes (∼3–100 M_⊙) form primarily from core collapse in massive stars (M ≳ 20–30 M_⊙), while intermediate-mass (10²–10⁵ M_⊙) and supermassive (10⁶–10¹⁰ M_⊙) variants likely arise via hierarchical mergers, gas accretion, and seed mechanisms in the early universe.
I’m sick of explaining how people can end up on benefits. I’ll say it again. I had a partner, we had a beautiful family, we could afford our lives. But my partner got sick and died. I was on my own with four kids, 3yr, 5yr, 6yr and 15yrs old. I couldn’t afford childcare, I didn’t have family to help, we were grieving. That’s how we ended up on benefits. Life can be cruel and good for you if you haven’t been through some shit but a lot of us have. All we want is a helping hand, not a punching down. So fuck you to all who judge and don’t know what TF you’re talking about. You’re only ever one tragedy from needing help. I only hope it never happens to you.
@Official_WXUK@SENDS_WEATHER Missed it by about 7 miles....I'm literally on the western tip (Milford Haven) 😫 we had a dusting but literally only that, the precipitation was focused on more Tenby eastwards to Carmarthen.
Stranger Things Season 5 has been absolute fire. The internet just always wants something to be mad at and eventually turns against alot of things that are popular by nitpicking everything that aint really an issue and were even present in previous seasons.
Apart from the fun stuff at work, I don’t celebrate Christmas.
But as a Muslim, I believe that: ‘A person is either your brother in faith or your equal in humanity.’
So Christmas matters to me because it’s celebrated by you ❤️.
Merry Christmas and peace be unto you.