Newsletter of January 18th, 2025
- Micheal V.
- Jan 18, 2025
- 3 min read
Hello everyone, I hope you are all enjoying the new year. With the new year, comes a new newsletter from STEM Students United!
Starting at Landstown High School, Tidewater Community College has offered a one-of-a-kind opportunity for Landstown student by giving a possibility to participate in a Dual Enrollment study about Artificial Intelligence! The admission only accepted 10 people out of all applicants. The course is about 3 months long, and it mainly focuses on how AI is used in everyday business and corporations. The grand prize for completing this course with a successful grade is a whopping three college credits! It teaches how ethical the usage of AI is, its real-world applications and even some career paths connected to the topic! It is a Landstown only opportunity and it is brand new to this school year. Besides, artificial intelligence has been the peak of all modern topics for a while now, this course is truly about the future of everything.
In our evolving world of computers, we start our new years with more development in quantum computing. Quantum computers are an incredible and cutting-edge technology that is still waiting for its ultimate completion in order to see the extent of its full potential. Recently, scientists managed to recreate the famous Schrödinger's cat experiment on an atomic level; a single atom of antimony can spin in eight different directions, allowing for more options than dead or alive, for the “atomic cat.” This atom, when placed inside a confined unavailable space, could have its spin direction controlled by a special chip, allowing for modification of a quantum variable with a lot of room for mistakes, or “room for error,” for the first time (UNSW, 2025). This is a major step-up for the final development of quantum computers, as our scientists are getting closer to their final development every day. In the future, quantum computers will be an absolutely break-through development, and it will possibly advance and ameliorate so many processes and systems in the modern business world, very exciting and overwhelming!
For things more out of this world, scientists have recently captured a phenomenon that has never been observed at the very start of its existence. A galaxy almost 300 million light years away called “1ES 1927+654” had a blackhole in the very center of it that was growing slowly, until it wasn’t. In 2018 the black hole rapidly increased in size and brightness and started growing exponentially. It is the first time that scientists have captured its “jets,” or constant radio signals and particles from the black hole. It started sending even more X-ray emissions and radiation in 2023, which is a phenomenon that has never been observed in real time. Additionally, black hole jets can sometimes be so big they reach outside of its home galaxy, which can affect how stars form; this is extremely important because studying 1ES 1927+654’s black hole can help understand more concepts of the universe and how different celestial bodies occur (UMBC, 2025).
Sources: University of Maryland Baltimore County. (2025, January 16). Astronomers observe real-time
formation of black hole jets for the first time. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 17, 2025
University of New South Wales. (2025, January 14). This metaphorical cat is both dead and
alive -- and it will help quantum engineers detect computing errors. ScienceDaily.
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