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2019 in news: The alternative end-of-the-year awards
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Citizenship Act protests: Why fear has gripped Muslims in this Indian state
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China internet: Top talking points of 2019 and how they evaded the censors
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Africa’s year in pictures 2019
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Tech 2019: Our biggest technology stories
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‘Man on the Moon’ moment – the year’s big breakthroughs
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The Best Movies of the Decade
And just like that, we’re entering a new decade, and one that will hopefully bring us many great movies. But let us not forget the 2010s, and all the excellent films that were made over the past 10 years. Masterpieces from iconic filmmakers, surprise amazing debuts from new talent, superhero sagas that transcended the form, horror films that continue to freak us out, the return of dystopian heroes after a 30-year break… we’ve had it all.
IGN’s entertainment team got together and put together the following list of the best movies of the decade after much deliberation, lots of killing of darlings, and more than one Slack debate. We hope you enjoy reading this list as much as we enjoyed putting it together, and when you’re done here, why not go watch a few of these classic flicks too?
NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Mimics How Gravity Warps Light
Earlier this year, astronomers revealed the first real-life picture of a black hole. A few months ago, NASA also shared computer simulations that further detail how “a black hole warps spacetime like a funhouse mirror – and how that affects the appearance of its glowing accretion disk of infalling material.”
As reported by ScienceNews.org, the black hole located in the M87 galaxy’s first photo was an incredible albeit blurry and still image. These new computer simulations show so much more detail, including how the black hole’s “superstrong gravity bends light emanating from gas in the disk behind the black hole so that the disk’s far side seems to split into arcs above and below the abyss.”
The Best Games of the Decade (2010 – 2019)
Spanning two console generations and thousands of game releases, the twenty-teens have been incredible for both game developers and their fans alike. While we thought about putting together a definitive ranking of the best games that came out between 2010 and the end of 2019, it quickly became apparent that there were way too many awesome games to crown just one as the decade’s best.
To that end, here are – with no particular ranking – our favorite games of the last ten years.
Click through the gallery above or scroll down for the full list.