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Follow the Apple Keynote with News of iOS 26 and more live

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The beginning of the second half of the year is the beginning for Apple in regards to software. The company has summoned us at Apple Park to attend its WWDC 2025, the Conference for Developers in which we will discover all the news related to iOS 19 (or, according to rumors, iOS 26), the rest of the ecosystem platforms and, With still doubts what will be the next stepthe improvements that come to Its artificial intelligence functions. One more year, in Xataka we will cover it on all fronts. How to follow WWDC 2025 The WWDC 2025 will take place today, Monday, June 9 at 7:00 p.m. Spanish peninsular. You can follow her with us On YouTubethrough our website and in Our direct page. Spain: 19:00 (18:00 in the Canary Islands). Mexico: 11:00 am Colombia: 12:00 am. Venezuela and Chile: 1:00 pm. Argentina: 2:00 pm. What do we hope to see WWDC is an event focused mainly on software. Some changes that will arrive first in the beta phase and, before the end of the year, to a good part of the Apple ecosystem devices. Except Unexpected delays or problems, Like the new Siri. This wwdc will be that of “Solarium”one of the biggest changes we have ever seen in the Apple systems interface. According to rumors, transparency will be the protagonist, and that Vision Pro will mark the path of the iPhone, the MAC and the iPad. And to unify these platforms and end the messes in the name, the key will be to bet on the year of launch + 1. From there iOS 26, macOS 26 and ipados 26. News are also expected in TVOS 26, Watchos 26, Visionos 26 and Some changes in native applications. This WWDC is a complex for Apple. It is your time to demonstrate at what point the company is at the software level, its credibility after promising a revolution with AIand the maturation point they have reached after suffer potholes in recent months. There are many questions to answer, and here we will be to tell you one by one. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The best functions and options of Apple Intelligence on iPhone and Mac to take advantage of artificial intelligence

We are injecting radioactive material into live rhino horns so that we stop consuming them

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Perhaps you did not know, but to protect us from human nature itself, that capable of generating the most absolute chaos, most of the main airports and ports, including those of South Africa, already have the infrastructure necessary to detect radioactive material. So that? To detect nuclear weapons. Thus, in theory, we avoid smuggling between countries. In a twist, science has just found in this infrastructure a solution for stop poaching. Radioactive horns. The news is as surprising as it is true: a group of South African scientists has been injecting radioactive material directly into the horns of living rhino. The idea: make them easier to detect in border stalls. Behind the project is the Radiation and Physics of Health (RHPU) of Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. Why the horns. Of course, the enclave where it is happening is not trivial. South Africa houses a Most of the planet’s rhinoceros And, as such, it is a critical point for poaching driven by, and here comes the key, demand from Asia. Yes, there the horns They use in traditional medicine for its supposed therapeutic effect (not tested). As Professor James Larkin explained, who runs the project, “every 20 hours in South Africa a rhinoceros dies from his horn.” In fact, before this amazing script, trying to save the rhino with another unexpected movement: investing in bonds. Not only that. The researchers indicate that the smuggling of these horns has currently made them “the most valuable false product in the black market, with a value even greater than that of gold, platinum, diamonds and cocaine. These horns hunted furtively are trafficked throughout the world and are used for traditional medicines or as status symbols”, They assure. Radioactivity injection process. Under the name Rhisotope Projectresearchers are drilling low doses of radioisotopes in the horns of 20 sedated rhinos whose health will be monitored over the next six months. We talked about two small radioactive chips in the horn zone that are then “finished” by spraying 11,000 microputs in the area. In the long term. If it succeeds, the program could be extended in the long term to include elephants and pangolines, as well as other plants and animals, According to the university. The material, in principle, would last five years on the horn, which “was cheaper than removing it every 18 months.” “Each insertion was closely supervised by expert veterinarians and there was very care to avoid any damage to animals,” Explain Larkin. “During months of research and evidence, we have also ensured that inserted radioisotopes do not involve any risk to health or any other risk for animals or for those who take care of them.” Poison for humans. In essence, once the radioactivity dose is inserted, the consumption by means of the products made with the horns will make them “essentially poisonous for human consumption,” they count at work. Be that as it may, the main objective is none other than identifying the smuggling attempts, to be able to be, before they leave the country. How the alarm jumps. Apparently, this infrastructure found in many airports works more or less simple. Anyone who tries to pass the radioactive horns would sound the alarms and a police response would be activated. By the way, scientists remember that the process is not harmful to animals, since the dose of the radioactive material is so low that it does not affect the animal’s health or the environment in any way. Figures that have led to the situation. Last February, the country’s Ministry of Environment said that, despite the government’s efforts to combat illegal trade, 499 of these giant mammals died in 2023most in state parks. In figures, it represents an increase of 11 percent compared to those of 2022. To get an idea of This sad realitywe talk about figures of up to $ 60,000 per kilo, which explains why the rhinoceros horn remains one of the most lucrative illegal markets. Image | Witts University, Martin Pettitt In Xataka | An area of ​​Mexico has become an out of control: tourists do not stop to swim with wild orcs In Xataka | It never rains to everyone’s taste: we have just discovered that rainfall has wreaked havoc on the Galician octopus *An earlier version of this article was published in June 2024

What neighbors and tourists do not live in the same buildings

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In Spain, for a long time, talking about housing is doing it upward prices and a pressure increasing For the pocket of families. Especially in big cities, such as Madrid, Barcelona either Malagawhere drawing is further complicated by The pressure that exercises tourist rent in the market. To tackle that challenge the capital has just endowed with A new tool: A plan that aspires to decentralize tourist floors, favor that they leave residential buildings and prevent commercial lows from being converted into vacation floors. The question is … how will theory go from the facts? What happened? That Madrid has just been equipped with which from now on will be its new roadmap to face one of its greatest challenges: the Tourist and Its impact in the housing market. The municipal plenary approved Wednesday, in a anger session And with the solo votes of the PP, the Plan residesthat marks a series of guidelines on where and how tourist floors can be opened from now on. From the outset, its key idea is very simple: the holiday rental will go on the one hand and the residential use for another, so that both uses do not match in the buildings of the center. Click on the image to go to Tweet. What does the plan propose? To understand it before, you have to keep in mind a key: the plan divides the capital into two. On the one hand is the central almond, The most pressured For the floors for tourists and therefore the one that most affected sees its residential market. And on the other is the outer zone, located outside the historic center. The difference is important because each area is regulated differently. It also simplifies the Special Host Plan Previous, 2019, which works on a map with three “rings”. The changes of greater draft will be given in the first circle, that of the central almond of Madrid. The main one is that the City Council wants that from now on in that area the tourist floors will go on the one hand and those of traditional homes on the other. The plan resides expressly prohibits “dispersed tourist floors in residential buildings”, even on low floors. In short, they will not share building in the center. In the blocks that are not destined for residential use, the thing is different. In those cases, tourist floors “without limitations” will be admitted. Are there more news? Yes. The main one is that tourist apartments must concentrate on blocks that are dedicated exclusively to that purpose (I would not affect to the floors that already exist and have a license), but the plan resides includes more novelties. The previous norm, of 2019, allowed convert low floors In tourist apartments, which has led many center stores dedicating themselves to that use, much more profitable than commercial. The City Council Calculate that only between 2015 and 2024 have been converted into homes and tourist floors 3,306 bass. The new municipal plan wants to end that trend. “With the plan resides, the transformation of commercial premises into tourist floors in the historic center and the transformation of premises into homes into the main tertiary roads is not allowed,” They point From the town hall, which requires that outside the historic center there will also be streets and avenues in which the reconversion of premises will be restricted in apartments for holiday rental. And what about the offer? The idea of ​​the plan is to concentrate the tourist offer in blocks dedicated to that purpose, “decentralize” the activity and take it to areas tertiarywhere the impact on homes is therefore lower. Another of its objectives is to “recover and increase” the supply of residential housing in the city center. For that purpose preside includes some strategies to recover buildings now in disuse. For example, it will allow “private, cataloging and obsolete” giving equipment “to affordable rental housing or Coliving as long as its restoration is guaranteed. The City Council estimates that the measure could benefit 210 buildings distributed throughout the city center. The plan will also allow to pass residential buildings classified and located outside commercial areas to tourist use, but with a small print: “only use can be changed for 15 years, with a direct license linked to the rehabilitation and restoration of the building.” “Subsequently, it will return to residential use”, duck. And beyond the center of Madrid? The main change affects the historic center of Madrid, where the City Council will cease to grant licenses for dispersed tourist floors in residential buildings; But the Plan resides It also includes some novelties that affect the neighborhoods located outside that central almond. The most important is that the municipal permits for tourist rental will be granted only to the floors that meet certain characteristics. “Outside the historic center, the City Council allows the implementation of tourist floors under current conditions in both complete buildings and in dispersed homes that live with residential use,” details the Consistory. “In the latter case, the obligation that these tourist floors have independent access on the first floor and ground floor is included as a novelty.” Does plan reside or speculate? Despite the optimism of the government, not everyone believes that the plan will serve to “order” the supply of tourist rental and reduce the pressure it has been exerting on the housing market for years. On the contrary. The opposition already He has warned of the risk that the new regulations end up having a fairly different effect: that buildings in the center of Madrid that are now residential end up converted into blocks of tourist floors. In fact, more Madrid has even renowned the plan: instead of “resides” he speaks of “expels.” Similar notice gave the PSOE, worried that the new plan further worsen the radiography of tourist rent in Madrid. His fear is that, instead of supporting basically in particular That they buy floors with their savings to lease them to tourists and achieve … Read more

An unforeseen live and a bet that points far away

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Google’s story with the glasses is not over. On the contrary. After years of silence, the company has put them on stage again. And he has done it with a project that recovers a family name: Project aura. It is not the first time we listen to it. It has been playing from The times of Google Glasswhich ended in a dark corner of technological history. But this time, the approach is very different. During the Google I/or 2025, where we also saw proposals such as Ai mode either Beamthe company showed live the state of development of its new mixed reality glasses. A proposal that Born in collaboration with Xreal And that, according to those responsible for the project, wants to take the Android experience to the XR universe with naturalness, context and responses in real time. A live demo, without tricks or touch -ups. It all started when Shahram left, responsible for the device area, He launched a question to the public recorded in a video posted on YouTube: “Who points to see an early demonstration of the Android XR glasses?” The answer came from bambalins. Nishtha Bhatia, part of the team, appeared on the scene remotely and began to show the real operation of the glasses. The first thing we saw was an interface superimposed in real time over the environment. Through the integrated camera, the glasses showed what he had in front while Bhatia received messages, played music, consulted addresses or interact with Gemini, the conversational assistant, all through voice commands. Without taking out the mobile. Without clicking anything. In one of the most striking moments, the demo showed how I could ask which band was the author of a painting that was watching. Gemini responded, although with the occasional delay attributable to connection problems. He also asked that a band of the band on YouTube Music be reproduced, which happened without manual intervention. Everything was recorded in the image shared in real time. Live translation and a small failure on stage. The final test consisted of a conversation between Izadi and Bhatia in different languages. She spoke in Hindi, he in Farsi. The glasses, by Gemini, offered a simultaneous translation with voice interpretation. The system worked correctly for a few seconds, but those responsible decided to interrupt the demo when they detected a failure. Despite the stuping, the message was clear: Google wants to play again in the field of connected glasses, this time with a more mature base, supported by its service ecosystem, in Gemini and in collaborations with key actors in the world XR. The difference, at least for now, is in the approach: practical experiences, in real time, without long -term ornaments or promises. Images | Google In Xataka | Google already has an agricultural AI capable of programming for you: it’s called Jules and seeks to stand up for OpenAi

Follow the Great Live Google Conference

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One more year, one of the most important appointments of the year with Google arrives. Today the Google I/O 2025one of the conferences (really a series of conferences) of the year that, how could it be otherwise, you can follow it live and direct with us. The opening conference of the Google I/or 2025, the one in which Google will present the most juicy news, will take place Today, May 20, at 7:00 p.m. Spanish peninsular. You can follow her live on YouTubein Our Instagram profile and on our direct page. The schedules according to regions are the following: Spain: 19:00 (18:00 in the Canary Islands). Mexico: 11:00 am Colombia: 12:00 am. Venezuela and Chile: 1:00 pm. Argentina: 2:00 pm. 10 Google applications that could have triumphed What do we hope to see Google I/O 2025 | Image: Google Surely he does not take anyone by surprise that the Google I/or this year will have the AI ​​as the main protagonist. Mountain View company is Betting very strong for Gemini and integrating this technology into all its productsfrom Android to the search engine, so it is likely that today we know not only new models, but new integrations and experiences in all its products. We are also likely to have information about Agentic And some novelty of PROJECT ASTRA. On the other hand, on May 13 it took place The Android Showthe separate event in which Google presented all the news of Android 16Wear OS and other systems. However, there was a name that did not have excessive prominence and that, surely, has it today: Android XR. The Google I/O 2025 will be marked by the same word that has marked all the events of recent years: AI This operating system, which we will find on devices such as Project Moohan (The glasses that Google is developing with Samsung), will also have Gemini as a co -pilot and aims to be Google’s next pass. The firm managed to conquer the mobile world with Android and with Android XR seems to aspire to the same in an incipient segment, but with great potential: the connected glasses. Daydream and Google Glass They did not come to fruition, but it is often said that the third will be the defeated. What we do not expect is hardware. Unless there is a surprise in the form of precisely glasses, we do not expect novelties of pixel, tablets or home automation. This event has all the ballots to be about ia, AI and a little more than ia. Recall: It will take place today, May 20, at 7:00 p.m. Spanish peninsular. Cover image | Google edited by Xataka In Xataka | Google has been trying to create your WhatsApp. With RCS it is achieving it without it seems

sperm races with live repetitions and statistics

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In the world of billionaires, Extravagant ideas They seem to have no limits. The latest in exclusive entertainment is not a speed competitionof resistance or skill. Actually, contestants can be resting Quietly, while a part of them rises with victory: sperm races have arrived for millionaires. A career for your life. The initiative starts from the startup Sperm Racingwhich has already raised a million and a half dollars To organize this unprecedented event. The chosen stage is the historic Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, where on April 25 at 6:00 p.m. (April 26 at 3:00 a Spanish peninsular time) It will be held The first sperm race in history. According to the organization, it is planned that more than 4,000 attendees will witness live how two sperm samples They compete on a racing track specially designed to simulate the female reproductive system. The “contestants”. The event It consists of facing the signs of sperm of Tristan and Asher, two university vigorous of UCLA and USC, entities with a special rivalry. As detailed in the Competition Manifestotheir sperm will travel a track 20 centimeters long, in which a series of “chemical signals, fluid dynamics and synchronized signals” have been arranged, all thought to reproduce the real conditions of the human body. The movement of the tiny contenders, who measure only 0.05 millimeters, will be captured by “high -resolution cameras trace each microscopic movement. Everything is broadcast live, with statistics, classification tables and instant repetitions.” The show is served. In order for the public to follow the development of the race, the image will be expanded 40 times, allowing to trace the progress of each sample. Taking into account that sperm usually swim for about five millimeters per minute, each race will last at least 40 minutes to complete the 20 centimeters to the goal. The sperm that before crossing the goal will be the winner, giving his donor the glory in this peculiar tournament. The background is not nonsense. Eric Zhu, the young co -founder of Sperm Racing, argues that this race is not only a viral joke, but a serious attempt to raise awareness about the male reproductive health. “The sperm races are not limited to competing with the best specimens, although, being honest, it is hilarious,” Zhu said in his manifesto. “It’s about making male fertility something that people really want to talk, continue and improve.” Beyond the show and curiosity of the new competitive discipline, the truth is that the science has already certifiedthat the quality of the semen of western men It has descended. In the 70s, the average count was at 99 million gametes, compared to the 47 million that on average were counted in the early 21st century. Athlete care. A study From the Bernabeu Institute, based on 8,000 samples analyzed during the last five years, it reveals that the sperm count per milliliter has fallen 16.75%, and its motility has decreased by 12%. As they joked in The Cuttaking into account Elon Musk’s effort for having childrenit would not be strange if you were fond of this sport to Encourage birth throughout the planet. In Xataka | Reproductive Wars: When will we stop needing women to have children? Image | Spermracing

We thought that oil was a thing of the past. But the oil companies that have remained faithful to raw live their golden age

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While the rise of renewables continues full -potato wind, as can be seen in projects such as GLOBAL RENEWABLE Watchthe big refineries are starring an unexpected return to the center of the energy stage. The commitment to hydrocarbons. Unlike other companies in the sector, French TotalEnergies did not turn completely in an energy conversion. Yes, he invested in renewables. Yes, he developed liquefied natural gas projects. But he never abandoned his base: oil and gas. According to Reutersthe company has increased its UPSTREAM production (crude and gas extraction) compared to the first quarter of 2024. Although oil prices are below the level of a year ago, gas sales have improved, and fuel production is returns to be profitable. Refinement in recovery. The situation is dragging the effects of a profitability drop that has affected the entire industry. According to the company, the profit margins in the oil refining in Europe have increased in the last six months, but there are still 59% below the levels of a year ago. All this is due to multiple reasons, such as a weak demand, the growth of New refineries in Asia and Africa, OPEC+ overproduction and Trump’s tariff war. Even so, as the news agency has detailed, Totalenergies has increased fuel production, partially benefiting from that slight recovery on the margins. The strategy. According to Ahmed Ben Salem, an analyst at Oddo BHF, among the greats of the sector, Totalenergies is “the most resilient in a weaker macro environment, backed by diversification towards liquefied natural gas and renewable energy.” And it is not the only one that has found a new balance between transition and profitability. While Timenergies clings to a hybrid strategy, its Anglo -Saxon rivals are also adjusting the course. BP, for example, has trimmed His green ambitions to focus again on hydrocarbons. Exxonmobil He has opted strong for carbon capture. Together, all of them seem to be converging in the same idea: crude has not yet said his last word. The paradox of the transition. In the decisive decade for climate action, refining recovery sounds almost to Anatema. Can the energy sector continue to win time with fossil fuels without losing the decarbonization train? This dynamic does not occur in a vacuum. As I know He explained The tariff war and the firmness of the OPEC+ to continue producing the barrels has caused a drop in oil prices, with the Brent and the WTI stabilized around 60 dollars a barrel. This scenario impacts directly on the refineries, which try to balance fossil profitability with the growing stark pressure. Image | Pexels Xataka | The US plan to reduce oil is about to derail what worked best in its economy

make cities a good place to live

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When Daniel Knowles He began writing his book about the car industry, the world had been silent. Millions of people were locked at home, unemployment rates shot up, the streets cleared and wild animals returned to the desert center of the cities. The situation was so new that it could be dream that so much pain, death and uncertainty was going to open the door to a new world. It did not spend much time until we discovered that ‘dreaming’ was the key, which was nothing more than a ground. Two years later, while Knowles ended the book (‘Carmageddon‘, Captain Swing, 2025), “The world economy was booming, traffic had returned to the previous levels of pandemic and oil had prices (maximums) that were not seen in a decade. There were no other futures to fight for? A turning point. If two or three years ago, this correspondent of The Economist thought that we lived a turning point, it seems a good idea to return to their ideas to solve the cities crisis: that moment of change has only lengthened. But … what cities crisis? We can be living A world demographic crisisYeah; But the urban population is growing forced marches: in 2007, half of humanity already lived in cities for the first time. Now we are 55% and will reach 66% before 2050. What crisis is this? Well, As Rodríguez Seijo said right herea much more sibyline suris: than urban ecosystems “have become large centers of resource consumption, and in production areas and emission of potentially polluting substances.” And yes, it is true, “since 2000, one of the main pollutants in urban environments, the lead of gasoline, old housing paints or pipes” has been eliminated or reduced; However, “there are many organic and inorganic pollutants that continue to cause different health problems and that cause millions of deaths a year.” That is the true crisis. A crisis of at least seven million deaths a year. That was what the poor air quality, driven by the transport industry, caused In urban environments only in 2012. Hence, specialists like Knowles argue that “the expansion of the car has gone too far and must be stopped.” Freen it? Can we stop it? Rodríguez Seijo, Reflecting on the causes that “cities are killing us”he concluded that “the absence of planning” is one “of the great challenges facing urban populations.” That’s where Knowles ideas shine more. “I believe, without any doubt, that a largely populated city is the best place to live in most cases both for my own good and for that of the planet,” The journalist concluded After visiting more than half a dozen countries. Moreover, “there is no good reason for the sustainable option – living in an apartment or in a good -sized attached house in a neighborhood that can walk, bike and use public transport to move – it has to be so expensive and, on the contrary, live in a huge single -family house and use huge amounts of natural resources is the cheapest option.” This sounds a bit difficult to implement. And Knowles agree. In fact, as repeatedly defends, we do not have to reproduce Tokyo on each part of the planet. “Nor do we have to start to pieces the highways or impose draconian norms such as the Singapore enrollment lottery.” Even so, there is one thing that can be done to get cities Be healthier sites to live: Reorient the incentives towards the purpose they should have. There are hundreds of ideas. French taxes on cars according to weight, the Dutch reform to give priority to pedestrians or london congestion rates. It is definitely to realize that people take centuries Trying to go to live to the cities; that, in fact, they are doing it faster and faster; And that, surely the measure with a more transformative impact today would be to turn those cities into good places to live. Image | Chris Czermak | Yeh Xintong In Xataka | The cities with skyscrapers are not the panacea. They contaminate more than those of middle heights (such as Paris)

Astronomers have seen live the awakening of a giant black hole. They had never detected something so violent

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Good morning, Ansky. SDSS1335+0728 was a black hole so boring that it didn’t even have a nickname. Located 300 million light years, in the constellation of Virgo, he had been asleep from our point of view. But go aroused. The supermassive black hole has aroused in such a violent way that it has left fascinated and somewhat baffled astronomers. Now it is an active galactic nucleus (AGN) dodged affectionately “Ansky”. Years of study. The galaxy where Ansky is began to shine unexpectedly in visible light at the end of 2019. Chilean astronomer Paula Sánchez Sáez, of the Southern European Observatory (ESO), leads the first team that detected activation. “When we saw Ansky illuminate in optical images, we activate monitoring observations with the NASA X -ray space telescope and review archived data of the erosite German telescope,” Paula says in a statement. “But at that time we did not see evidence of X -ray emissions.” The surprise arrived in February 2024. A second team led by Lorena Hernández-García, from the University of Valparaíso (in Chile), saw how Ansky began to emit gusts of incredibly energy and regular X-ray. “It is the first time we observed such an event in a black hole that seems to be waking up,” Lorena explains. Out of the ordinary. He XMM-Newton telescope From the European Space Agency it has allowed to measure the faint x -ray light that comes to us from the explosions, which has been key to measuring how much energy releases Ansky in each “flash”. Known as “quasiperiódicas eruptions” (QPES), X -ray emissions turned out to be ten times longer and ten times luminous than other supermassive black holes. Each eruption of Ansky releases a hundred times more energy than the Qpes observed so far. In addition, it had never seen a time between eruptions so wide, with a cadence of four and a half days. Ansky takes astronomical models to the limit and challenges our current ideas on how these flashes are generated. What causes these explosions? The most accepted theory about the QPES is that they are caused by the interaction of an object (such as a smaller star or hole) with the accretion disc (the hot and bright material that revolves around the black hole before being engulf). They usually occur when the Black hole is eaten a starbut it does not seem to be the case of Ansky. This has led the international astronomer team to consider other possibilities. Perhaps the accretion disk will be formed from gas captured from the galactic environment, and the flares are the result of highly energetic shock waves caused by a smaller object that orbit and disturbed repeatedly the disc. Gravitational waves. Notice Real Time Awakening It is an unprecedented opportunity to check if their energy eruptions could be related to gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein’s relativity and detected for the first time a few years ago. The smooth mission of ESA and NASA will try to observe these disturbances in the space-time fabric from point L1 of Lagrange after its launch in an Ariane 6 rocket planned for 2035. Image | THAT In Xataka | We knew that the supermassive black holes were huge. Thanks to James Webb, now we know we were short

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