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A piece in the Times (of London) on Saturday 14th September must have raised a few eyebrows – mine certainly went skywards.
Under the headline “Black hole is eating more space matter”, the first sentence began: “The black hole at the centre of our solar system …”
This is worrying! A black hole that close should give us all pause for thought – mind you, if a black hole really has taken the place of the Sun, none of us would be here to tell the tale or read The Times!
A later sentence reads: “The black hole is about 26,000 light years away and poses no danger to Earth.” The Sun, by comparison, is 8 light minutes away – a bit of a difference.
This report was written by the Times’s Science Correspondent. Slightly embarrassing, methinks?
Thanks for pointing that out. I should be careful what I read.
mistakes happen, and errors are made. The value of a professional news person is that they come back and fix the error.
The Times has a regular Saturday column in which a staff journalist replies to complaints made during the week. It will be interesting to see if anyone picks up on this one!
more likely the newspaper retracts or restates something that a politician does.
I wonder who the writer was. Maybe he is already jobless now.