Black Hawk Down

Interest is resurging in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, in which two US Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in Somalia and 18 American soldiers were killed during a raid aimed at capturing warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's lieutenants. Discussion is focused on whether the 2001 film 'Black Hawk Down' by Ridley Scott accurately portrays what really happened, with commentary recounting the actual events of the operation.

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel tackles a reader question about Hawking radiation: as black holes evaporate, their event horizons shrink, raising the question of whether sufficiently small horizons could expose something other than a singularity at the core. The discussion explores what happens at the end stages of black hole evaporation and what theoretical physics predicts about these objects' final fate.

Actor Josh Hartnett says he has moved past the heartthrob image that defined his early career in the late 1990s and 2000s, and that he is comfortable with the shift. In a new interview, the star of films like Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down reflects on aging in Hollywood and his later, quieter career choices.

The Debrief asked an expert whether a black hole could ever be harnessed as a power source, and published a surprising answer. The piece explores the physics of extracting energy from black holes, a topic long discussed in theoretical physics through concepts like the Penrose process and Hawking radiation. The exact conclusions of the expert have not been detailed in available coverage.