After arrival, cops ordered the assailant to surrender his weapon and leave the home, which the suspect refused to do, leading a stand-off and eventual hail of bullets. “This kind of attack on people that just want to keep their community members safe is absolutely unacceptable… I do believe that we can put together policies that will protect our citizens’ right to privacy while allowing men and women to do their job in a safer way.”įive Phoenix police officers were hit by gunfire, and another four injured by shrapnel after responding to a 911 call Friday reporting a woman had been shot inside a house. “We’re the fifth-largest city in the country and our men and women in blue deserve to have drones for their safety and the safety of citizens in the city,” O’Brien said before re-introducing the measure. Yet a similar motion approving drone operation by Phoenix police failed amid public concerns about privacy implications. Officially tabled by O’Brien in the hours after the violence, the proposal is slated to be put to a vote by municipal representatives Wednesday.įollowing the example of Greater Phoenix Area neighbor Scottsdale – which has used the craft for fire, search and rescue, and gas detection – the Phoenix City Council voted last month to approve use of UAVS by its firefighters. The AP is solely responsible for all content.Phoenix City Counsellor Ann O’Brien responded to the February 11 violence by urging her peers to help protect police forces with the kind of specialized drones that law enforcement members elsewhere in the US have used for a variety of purposes – including advanced surveillance of tense or risky confrontations. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The quasar is 12 billion light-years away and has been around since the early days of the universe. More observations are needed to understand its growth rate. Further analysis shows the mass of the black hole to be 17 to 19 billion times that of our sun, according to the team. These later observations and computer modeling have determined that the quasar is gobbling up the equivalent of 370 suns a year - roughly one a day. “The exciting thing about this quasar is that it was hiding in plain sight and was misclassified as a star previously,” Yale University's Priyamvada Natarajan, who was not involved in the study, said in an email. Observations by telescopes in Australia and Chile’s Atacama Desert clinched it. It was not identified as a quasar - the extremely active and luminous core of a galaxy - until last year. The European Southern Observatory spotted the object, J0529-4351, during a 1980 sky survey, but it was thought to be a star. “This quasar is the most violent place that we know in the universe,” lead author Christian Wolf of Australian National University said in an email. The rotating disk around the quasar's black hole - the luminous swirling gas and other matter from gobbled-up stars - is like a cosmic hurricane. While the quasar resembles a mere dot in images, scientists envision a ferocious place. The black hole powering this distant quasar is more than 17 billion times more immense than our sun, an Australian-led team reported Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy. The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. (AP) - Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day.
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