Plagued by bureaucracy after seeking treatment for her severely ill son in the US, streetwise Cambodian doctor Thony De La Rosa makes a deal with the devil and becomes a part of the Las Vegas underground to give her boy a fighting chance. It's a thrilling premise, so read on as we explain how to watch The Cleaning Lady online from anywhere.
Thony trades in the stethoscope for solutions and sponges when her visa expires and her five-year-old is denied the treatment he so urgently needs, but the capital of second chances offers a lifeline she's in no position to pass up.
Trapped at the scene of a messy murder, the sharp-witted Thony does what she needs to, bargaining with Las Vegas mobster Arman Morales by offering to cover up kills by scrubbing away spills.
Thus an unlikely alliance is forged, but tormented and trapped between her circumstances and ideals, Thony knows that one false move would bring an already precarious arrangement crashing down.
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There's no word yet on when The Cleaning Lady will air in the UK, though we're hoping that we'll find out towards the end of its run in the US and Canada.
It's possible that when it does land, it'll be exclusive to Sky, but nothing's confirmed yet.
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Newly discovered monster galaxy is the largest ever found
Galaxies are mind-bendingly big structures, but one recently discovered galaxy is an absolute colossus stretching millions of light years across despite having less mass than many of its counterparts.
The galaxy in question, Alcyoneus, is a special type of galaxy known as a radio galaxy, defined by a unique feature of its central supermassive black hole.
When any black hole gobbles up material, it does so similar to water swirling down a drain. As water gets closer to the drain, its angular velocity increases considerably.
The same happens to matter as it swirls around a black hole's event horizon, though the velocity of matter just outside the event horizon can approach significant fractions of the speed of light.
And, sometimes, some of that matter is able to escape being eaten by riding the immense magnetic field of the black hole to the magnetic poles and getting shot out into space as relativistic jets of highly charged particles.
These jets can travel hundreds of thousands of light years before forming into massive lobes. These lobes interact with the intergalactic medium to generate radio emissions, giving this type of galaxy its name.
With Alcyoneus, though, these lobes are absolutely gigantic, extending five megaparsecs from the end of one to the end of the other, which translates to about 16.3 million light years across.
The discovery by researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands – which was published this week on the preprint server ArXiv and which has been accepted for publication by the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics – may provide astronomers with vital clues to solving the mystery of radio galaxies' enormous growth.
"Giant radio galaxies (GRGs, or colloquially ‘giants’) are the Universe’s largest structures generated by individual galaxies... However, the main mechanisms that drive their exceptional growth remain poorly understood," the researchers write in the paper.
Surprisingly, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galactic disk producing the jets and lobes actually isn't the largest seen to date. In fact, it might be smaller than the median mass of the supermassive black hole at the center of a radio galaxy, and the underlying mass of "host galaxy" isn't larger than is typically found either, making its gargantuan lobes all that more mysterious.
"The discovery shows that the sphere of influence of some galaxies reaches far from their direct environment," a Leiden University statement on the discovery said. "How far, exactly? That is hard to determine."
Even more, we're only seeing Alcyoneus from a single viewpoint, so it's very difficult to judge its depth.
"As a result, scientists can only measure a part of the radio galaxy length: a low estimate of the total length," Leiden University said. "But even that lower bound, of more than 16 million light years, is gargantuan, and comparable to one hundred Milky Ways in a row."
Analysis: how do you even classify the size of a galaxy?
The relatively ordinary size of the "host galaxy" producing the lobes leads to an interesting question: what does size even mean in this context?
Are relativistic jets and the lobes they produce a part of the galaxy or are they separate from them? Smoke accompanies fire, but we understand the two to be different things, so aren't relativistic jets and lobes the same thing except on a galactic scale?
The problem with that analogy is the galactic scale, ultimately. The lobes of a radio galaxy are still under the influence of the galaxy that produces them, so they don't exist independent of it, even if they are millions of light years away.
Complicating things further is that radio galaxies are almost exclusively the product of an elliptical galaxy, which don't have the familiar shapes of a spiral galaxy.
They also have far less or no new star formation, along with lower levels of gas than brighter, younger, and more active spiral galaxies like our own, so it's harder to qualify their features the way it is for spiral galaxies.
All of this is to say that there is debate around these classifications, but there's no denying that Alcyoneus is going to be an important part of that debate going forward.
PS5 Slim: when will we see a smaller, lighter PlayStation 5?
There needn’t be any doubts that Sony will release a PS5 Slim in the coming years. The Japanese company has always released a smaller and lighter revision of its home consoles – from the original PlayStation to the PS4 , which means a PS5 Slim is surely a matter of when, and not if.
Sony will be looking to shave off a few inches and knock a couple of pounds off the PS5’s original polarizing design , then, but a PS5 Slim isn’t just about appealing to consumers who may have been put off by the console’s gargantuan size.
Slim consoles are essentially a cost-cutting exercise for companies. As manufacturing costs begin to wane and more efficient parts are available, Sony will be able to create a smaller version of the PS5 that not only costs less to make, but will deliver the same experience as its bulkier predecessor but in a significantly smaller package.
In fact, Sony has already started to trim down the PS5, at least internally. New models of the PS5 Digital Edition , CFI-1100B, is a whopping 300 grams lighter than the launch model was, and Sony even decided to change the screw that comes with the PS5’s stand, too. The console also has a redesigned heatsink, which resulted in a lighter system.
There are a few caveats to keep in mind when it comes to hardware revisions, though. Slim consoles can have a tendency to feel cheaper than launch models, which can sometimes be over-engineered. While that’s not always the case, sometimes the cost-savings can be felt, and sometimes features are even removed. The PS4 Slim , for example, removed the optical port which was found on the launch model.
Still, the smaller, lighter design of a PS5 Slim should outweigh most of the negatives a cheaper design can bring, and Sony will ultimately replace the original console design with its new model as it looks to maximize its profit margins during production.
If you’re interested in picking up a PS5 Slim, here’s everything you should expect to see from Sony’s slender new hardware revision.
PS5 Slim price and release date
The PS5 Slim will likely be cheaper than the original PS5’s launch price of $499 / £449. We’d expect it to be around $100 cheaper, so $399 / £349, which was the launch price of the PS4. The original PS5 price tag of $499 / £449 will likely be replaced by the PS5 Pro , as was the case when the PS4 Pro was released.
It’s unclear whether Sony will release a PS5 Slim Digital Edition, but we’d expect it to follow the same pricing scheme as before, with a discount of $100 / £90 over the disc version. That could make Sony’s all-digital console incredibly appealing, but we’re not sure if Sony will pursue another digital model at this stage.
Historically, Sony tends to release a Slim version of its consoles three years after launch. This was the case with PS3 and PS4, while the PS2 Slim and PS One took four years and six years to arrive respectively. It’s likely, then, that a PS5 Slim could arrive sometime in 2023 or early 2024.
PS5 Slim design
While it’s impossible to predict exactly how the PS5 Slim will look, we’re expecting a fairly drastic reduction in the console’s overall size and weight. It’s likely that the console’s design won’t stray too far from Sony’s original vision, so expect a smaller, more compact version of the PS5’s current design.
The PS5 is the biggest console Sony has ever made, and can demand a fair bit of room in your home entertainment center, especially if you plan on placing it vertically. We’d love to see Sony do away with the stand completely for those who put the console on its side, and imagine it will be a lot shorter than the current PS5.
Sony has already knocked 300 grams off the current PS5 models, but we’d also expect to see further improvements to the console’s hefty frame as it’s the second heaviest system Sony has made to date at 8.6 pounds, which is only a touch lighter than the PS3.
PS5 Slim specs
The PS5 Slim will likely be identical from a technical perspective to the current PS5, but we have seen some Slim revisions get a slight performance boost. Microsoft improved the Xbox Series S’s performance ever so slightly, and Nintendo also added a bit more grunt to the New Nintendo 3DS which enabled it to play specific games. Sony hasn’t generally improved the hardware inside its Slim models, however, and with a PS5 Pro on the horizon, it wouldn’t make much sense.
Sony could increase the PS5 Slim’s storage, or at least offer two SKUs for those who want a bit more wiggle room when it comes to storing games. There’s also a chance that the console’s ports could change or move around, as we saw with the PS4 Slim which axed the optical port.