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Bright flares emitted by mangled stars could reveal ejected black holes

London, August 4 : Astrophysicists have determined that bright flares emitted by a retinue of captured stars could detect a black hole ejected from its host galaxy.

When two supermassive black holes collide, one or both may be hurled from the centre of the galaxy. Some such “recoiling” black holes can be detected by their accretion discs of swirling, glowing hot gas.

However, most black holes are stripped of their accretion discs as they are thrown into exile.

Even if they keep their discs, the black holes can consume them within tens of millions of years, leaving nothing behind but a naked, invisible black hole.

Dungeon dad may be charged with slavery

London, Aug 4 : Dungeon dad Josef FritzlAustrian prosecutors are mulling over whether to charge Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl, 73, with slavery to maximise the time he serves in jail.

Fritzl has admitted to having imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years in a secret cellar beneath his home in Amstetten, where he fathered six children with her.

While he kept three of the incest children with him and his wife Rosemarie, 68, in their upstairs apartment, the other three lived with Elisabeth in the concrete bunker until police rescued them on April 26.

Dungeon dad’s wife claims she is ‘a victim too’

London, Aug 4 :Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl’s wife Rosemarie, 69, claims that even she is a victim of the horrendous crimes committed by her husband.

She says that she “lives like an animal” in hiding as she is afraid of being seen in public. 

She insists that she was unaware of the secret cellar beneath her home in Amstetten, Austria, where her husband had kept their daughter Elisabeth as a sex slave in a cellar beneath their ancestral home for 24 long years, and fathered six children with her.

Pak terror camps training Afghan tots to use AK-47s

London, Aug. 4: The Al Qaeda is reportedly training boys as young as five on how to use AK-47 assault rifles to fight British troops in Afghanistan.

Weighty Gordon Brown needs gentle stretches, power walk to be fit

Weighty Gordon Brown needs gentle stretches, power walk to be fitLondon, Aug. 4 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has reportedly been told by his gym instructor that he still needs to lose two to three stone to be labelled fully fit.

According to The Sun, Brown’s trainer Millie Dobie has drawn up a “Clunking Fit” gym plan to help him to shape up.

He has been reportedly advised to start with some gentle stretches, and follow it up with a power walk and a spinning class or two.

UK Police prepare terror attack warning for restaurants and cinemas

UK Police prepare terror attack warning for restaurants and cinemasLondon, Aug. 4 : Britain’s National Counter Terrorism Security Office, a specialist police unit, has reportedly drawn up a warning guide for hospitality and entertainment sites in anticipation of terror attacks at crowded public places.

According to The Telegraph, owners and managers of hospitality and entertainment firms, including big hotels, are likely to be told to assess their businesses'' likely vulnerabilities to attack and prepare contingency plans for staff in the event of such an attack.

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