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A record breaking JWST observation has turned up a black hole cocooned in gas the size of the solar system, shining 100 billion times brighter than any star could burn. The object may explain the universe’s puzzling little red dots and reveal how the earliest supermassive black holes grew fast.
An MIT plasma physicist and a financial economist have built a ten-parameter test, modeled on fusion’s famous Lawson criterion, that asks the question the industry tends to dodge: can a fusion power plant bring in more money than it consumes?