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IBNLive.com - 1 hour ago New Delhi: Paul the octopus was right. Spain marched into the finals after dumping out Germany on Wednesday 1-0. The psychic octopus Paul on Tuesday had ... New Delhi: Paul the octopus was right. Spain marched into the finals after dumping out Germany on Wednesday 1-0. The psychic octopus Paul on Tuesday had predicted that Spain will beat Germany in the World Cup semi-finals. With six out of six correct predictions, the eight-legged creature has now predicted every result forGermany's games in this World Cup with 100 per cent accuracy. The only time the usually-prescient Paul has erred in the past was ahead of the Germany-Spain final at the 2008 European Championship. Paul picked Germany; Spain prevailed 1-0. Otherwise, Paul correctly predicting Germany's wins over Argentina and England, and also foretold the victories over Australia and Ghana and the country's loss to Serbia. Now with Germany to take on the Uruguay for the third place in...

Kate McAlpine, reporter A relatively small black hole has been spotted blowing bubbles with diameters of more than 300-1500 light years. Robert Soria of the University College London and colleagues pored over images and data from the European Southern Observatory and Chandra X-ray Observatory , zeroing in on an unusually large remnant from a supernova explosion. Its host galaxy appears in the Sculptor constellation of Earth's southern sky, around 12.7 million light years away. They discovered three hot spots in the x-ray emissions, all in a row, and identified the central one as the core of a black hole a few times larger than the sun. The two spots flanking the core are produced by jets colliding with interstellar gas. A nearby star feeds the black hole, giving it energy to shoot a flood of particles out each side at near the speed of light. These jets are much more powerful than expected for a black hole of this size, blowing bubbles that expand faster than the ...