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Filmmakers Matthew Heineman and the late Nancy Buirski will be honored at the16th Hamptons Doc Fest in New York.

A doc on best-selling author and sex researcher Shere Hite, who faced a brutal backlash for her work, has been acquired by IFC Films & Sapan Studios.

Black hole jets are known to emit x-rays, but how they accelerate particles to this high-energy state is still a mystery. Surprising new findings in Nature Astronomy appear to rule out a leading theory, opening the door to reimagining how particle acceleration works. One model of how jets generate x-rays expects the jets’ x-ray emissions to remain stable over long time scales. However, the new paper found that the x-ray emissions of a statistically significant number of jets varied over just a few years. “Hopefully this will be a real call to the theorists,” lead author Eileen Meyer says...

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Black hole jets are known to emit x-rays, but how they accelerate particles to this high-energy state is still a mystery. Surprising new findings in Nature Astronomy appear to rule out a leading theory, opening the door to reimagining how particle acceleration works. One model of how jets generate x-rays expects the jets’ x-ray emissions to remain stable over long time scales. However, the new paper found that the x-ray emissions of a statistically significant number of jets varied over just a few years. “Hopefully this will be a real call to the theorists,” lead author Eileen Meyer says...