Today on Post Reports - science reporter JoelAchenbach on a “eureka” moment: the first image of a black hole.
Yazidi refugees in Canada
In 2014, the Yazidis in northern Iraq went from a little-noticed ethnic group to the center of an international humanitarian crisis. Islamic State fighters launched a systematic attack to decimate Yazidi communities. They killed men and took women and children as slaves. The Canadian government decided it wanted to do something to help Yazidi refugees, and so it created a special program for victims of the Islamic State — particularly women and children who had survived captivity. The Canadian government agreed to take more than 1,000 Yazidi women and their families and resettle them in Canada.
covers foreign affairs for The Post. She wanted to know what life was like for these Yazidi women far from home, still haunted by ISIS.Black holes have been long theorized but never seen directly. Science reporter“I talked to one of the scientists. She said she spent her whole life working on this topic of black holes,” Achenbach says. “It was very moving for her because it's real. There it is. So it's a classic case of seeing is believing.
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