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New Music Friday May 8: The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Barry Manilow, Chaka Khan And More
Happy New Music Friday! The weekend is here, which means more streaming, new playlists and the best that music has to offer — and ET has you covered for everything in between.
Paul McCartney announced his first-ever duet with Ringo Starr during his special fan album playback in London this week. The song was formed around a drum track Paul invited Ringo to record for the album with producer Andrew Watt. Paul shared, “Ringo went round to the studio and drummed a bit. I said to Andrew, we should make a track and send it to him. So this song is done totally with Ringo in mind. In writing the song I’m talking about where we came from. In common with a lot of people, you come from nothing and you build yourself up.” The song is the second song released from Paul’s upcoming album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, out May 29.
The Rolling Stones announced their new studio album, Foreign Tongues, will be out July 10. The album was made in under a month at Metropolis Studios in West London, with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood reuniting with Grammy-winning producer Andrew Watt. The album includes a special appearance from Charlie Watts, captured during one of his final recording sessions before his passing in 2021. Additional contributions include Steve Winwood, Paul McCartney, The Cure’s Robert Smith and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
This week, The Rolling Stones had a special event in New York that included a conversation with Conan O’Brien and an exclusive, behind the scenes look at the making of the album. Attendees were treated to first listens of three never before heard tracks from their upcoming album and a debut preview of the new music video for “In the Stars” which features Odessa A’zion.
American Music Awards have added Hootie & the Blowfish, KATSEYE, Keith Urban, Maluma, Riley Green, SOMBR, Teddy Swims, and Twenty One Pilots to their lineup of performers. The awards hosted by Queen Latifah will air May 25 on CBS and Paramount+.
Ahead of her highly anticipated world tour next month, Hilary Duff will be performing at SiriusXM’s Small Stage Series on May 14 at El Rey Theatre. Hilary will perform songs from her new album, luck…or something, alongside her beloved hits. Marking her first major tour in over 17 years, Hilary’s the lucky me tour will kick off on June 22 but before that, she’ll return to Voltaire at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas on May 22.
No Doubt kicked off their highly anticipated residency at Sphere in Las Vegas this week. They opened the show with “Tragic Kingdom,” which was played live for the first time in almost 20 years. They also sang fan favorites like “Don’t Speak,” “Hella Good,” “Ex-Girlfriend,” “Just A Girl” and more. The residency marks their first extended run of shows in nearly 14 years.
Plus, new music from Barry Manilow, Chaka Khan, Dionne Warwick, Charli xcx, Kenny Chesney, Anderson .Paak, Josh Groban, Ashley McBryde, Adam Lambert, Sebastián Yatra, CORTIS and more.
“Home to Us” – Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr
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“In the Stars– The Rolling Stones
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“Another Life – 2026” – Barry Manilow
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“Chakzilla” – Chaka Khan
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“Where Is Your Heart” – Dionne Warwick & John Legend
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“LO ARRIESGO TODO” – Bruno Mars
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“Rock Music” – Charli xcx
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“Carry On” – Kenny Chesney
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“Aftertaste” – Anderson .Paak & DEAN
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CINEMATIC – Josh Groban
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BROWN – Chris Brown
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Wild – Ashley McBryde
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“EAT U ALIVE” – Adam Lambert
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“ORIGAMI!” – Kesha
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“Lo Que Me Pasa Con Vos” – Sebastián Yatra
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“Control” – Tori Kelly
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GREENGREEN – CORTIS
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“Without You” – GRYFFIN, AVELLO, Sasha Alex Sloan
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locket deluxe – Madison Beer
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“BOOTS” – Russell Dickerson feat Fetty Wap
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MUDA – Carín León
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“SMOKING PART II” – French Montana, Max B, Rick Ross
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THE AFTERPARTY – Lykke Li
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“These Arms” – The Temper Trap
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“Therapy At The Club” – FLO
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“Cabin Fever” – La Roux
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Dancing On The Wall – MUNA
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“high school sweetheart” – Ashley Cooke
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“Changes” – Tommy Richman
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The Lone Starlet – Tiffany Stringer
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“IDEAR” – Cooper Alan
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“Queen” – Fat Nwigwe
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“Little Blue House” – Moody Joody
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The Milky Ways black hole may have formed this curious tunnel in space
Suddenly, the Milky Way’s central black hole is starting to look a little less like a weirdo.
Astronomers have discovered a large cone-shaped void in gas surrounding Sagittarius A*, the galaxy’s supermassive black hole, that could solve a longstanding mystery.
All active black holes should blow winds or jets of material back into space while they’re feeding, according to theory. That process is how supermassive black holes shape the galaxies around them. But no matter how hard astronomers have looked, they haven’t seen our black hole, dubbed Sgr A* for short, pushing anything back out.
New images from a Northwestern University-led research team now suggest this cone tunneling through a fog of cold gas is evidence of that missing wind. It was almost literally an arrow pointing back at the black hole, said Mark Gorski, who co-led the study.
“This is the first time we’ve had a clean enough view to see the wind’s imprint,” Gorski said in a statement. “We looked at the data and said, ‘There it is. There is the thing that everybody’s been looking for for 50 years.'”
In reality, the discovery wasn’t that straightforward of an a-ha moment. Only after the team had overlaid their picture with data from NASA‘s Chandra X-ray Observatory did their observations begin to make sense. That gave them confidence the odd cone wasn’t just an imaging artifact, they said.
“When you find something that no one has seen before, the first thought that runs through your mind is not ‘Oh my God, we made a discovery,'” said coauthor Elena Murchikova, in a statement. “It’s ‘Oh my God, what’s wrong with my analysis?'”
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Astronomers combined radio and X-ray data from the ALMA and Chandra-X telescopes to study the cone-shaped void near the Milky Way’s central black hole.
Credit: NASA / CXC / Northwestern / M. Gorski / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / ALMA / K. Arcand and P. Edmonds
Scientists believe virtually all large galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their core. These are regions millions to billions of times more massive than the sun. In fact, so much mass is packed into these small spaces that gravity becomes strong enough to prevent anything from escaping — even light.
These black holes don’t just sit around, waiting for gas, dust, and stars to fall in, but they influence how their galaxies evolve around them by sucking in material and also blowing material that comes near their boundary — called the event horizon — back out.
By taking high-resolution observations with Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array in Chile over about five years, the team was able to map cold gas near the black hole in unprecedented detail. This ALMA image is 100 times deeper and 80 times sharper than previous maps, according to the researchers.
The cone stretches one to three light-years away from the black hole. The simplest explanation after careful consideration, according to the team’s findings published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, is that a fast, energetic stream of hot material has launched out of the black hole’s region, shoving colder gas in its path out of the way.
The ALMA radio telescopes in Chile spent five years observing the Milky Way’s central region to create high-resolution maps of surrounding cold gas.
Credit: ALMA /S. Longmore et al. / ESO / D. Minniti et al.
The team determined it would take more energy than could be provided by all the stars in that area to create the conic gap. The researchers estimated the wind has probably been blowing for 20,000 years or more.
Based on the image, the direction of Sgr A*’s wind seems somewhat tilted and uneven, which suggests it may be weak and mangled by surrounding gas as it travels.
How this feature has escaped the notice of previous researchers is not too surprising, the researchers said. In order to see into our own galaxy’s center, astronomers have to look through the plane of the Milky Way, which is thick with gas, dust, and ionized structures. Sgr A* may also be in a quieter lull, making the distant activity harder to spot.
Some scientists have previously suggested that the lack of wind or jets could mean Sgr A* is an exotic black hole — an outlier among hundreds of billions of others like it. If anything, Murchikova is now convinced of the opposite.
“It shows that our black hole is not unique, and our place in the universe is not unique,” she said.
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