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Queenslanders with rooftop solar panels are effectively subsidizing power companies, according to Queensland Conservation Council (QCC) energy engineers. Key points: Energy retailers save millions of dollars per month because of rooftop solar, says Conservation Council Loganholme resident David Baggs says feed-in rates are “bad” The Australian Energy Council says feed-in rates are already high enough The feed-in rates paid to households exporting electricity are well below wholesale prices, meaning retailers save millions of dollars per month, said QCC energy strategist Clare Silcock. “Because the prices are so high, we’re seeing massive subsidies,” Silcock said. “It’s a bit of a change from what we’ve heard historically – that feed-in tariffs have benefited the middle class and channeled subsidies to people who can afford to install solar panels on their roofs.” In Loganholme, south of Brisbane, David Baggs earns 7 cents per kilowatt hour for the electricity he delivers to the grid.

A newly discovered star is so close to the center of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole that it completes an orbit in just four years. It is the shortest orbit for any of the stars around Sagittarius A*. This is an oval-shaped journey around a black hole that takes the star to an orbital speed of more than 2.5 percent of the speed of light. This discovery adds exciting new information about the strange dynamics of the center of the Milky Way. Although the center of our galaxy is quite quiet compared to other galaxies, the environment around Sgr A* is an extreme place. Black holes are monsters, which have a mass about 4 million times the mass of the Sun. Before astronomers confirmed its existence with live images, scientists deduced its existence and calculated its mass based on the star locked in orbit around Sgr A*. The star, called S2, is just one of a group of stars known as S-stars, which follow a long, sharp elliptical orbit around Sgr A*, with a black hole at one end of the