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Wesley LePatner killed in NYC mass shooting: All about Blackstone executive's husband and kids
Wesley LePatner killed in NYC mass shooting: All about Blackstone executive's husband and kids

Hindustan Times

time18 hours ago

  • Business
  • Hindustan Times

Wesley LePatner killed in NYC mass shooting: All about Blackstone executive's husband and kids

Wesley LePatner, 44, was more than a top executive at Blackstone: she was a dedicated wife and mother of two. The Yale University graduate was killed in the fatal mass shooting that took place on Monday, July 29, at 345 Park Avenue. Wesley LePatner earlier worked for Goldman Sachs.(X@TonyLaneNV) According to a DailyMail report, Blackstone confirmed the passing of the CEO of firm's Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT), stating that she will be dearly missed by the company and the team. Wesley LePatner's family: All about her husband and kids Wesley's husband, Evan LePatner, is a partner at private equity firm Courizon. The couple met each other during their freshman year at Yale University. They got married in 2006 and share two children together. Wesley was residing with her family in a 7-million-dollar apartment on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. Wesley has been very vocal on social media about finding a way to juggle an intensive job with family time. In 2023, she posted a message thanking her husband Evan and noted that she could not do anything without him, DailyMail reported. Also Read: Who was Wesley Lepatner? Blackstone executive among four killed in NYC shooting Months before her death, Wesley also expressed gratitude to the company for involving her son in a learning experience at her workplace on 'Take Your Kids to Work Day'. A rising star in Real Estate As per Fortune, LePatner was Blackstone's Global Head of Core+ Real Estate and managed a property fund having nearly $53 billion in net assets and a $275 billion market cap. She joined the company in 2014 after having spent more than a decade at Goldman Sachs. In a statement issued after her passing, she was praised for her intelligence, passion, and warmth. Wesley was called a 'beloved member of the Blackstone family'. Beyond her professional achievements, she served on boards of The Met, Yale University Library Council, The Heschel School, and the UJA-Federation of New York. Wesley LePatner killed in NYC shooting Wesley was among the four victims killed in shooting at the headquarters of both Blackstone and NFL on Monday. The shooter, Shane Devon Tamura (27), had a history of mental illness and even grievances against the NFL. Also Read: NYC mass shooting: Who are the victims? Key details here Wesley was shot in the building's lobby while trying to take cover behind a pillar. She died at the scene. FAQs Who was Wesley LePatner? She was a senior managing director at Blackstone and CEO of BREIT. She was also a wife and mother of two. Was Wesley LePatner married? Yes. Wesley was married to Evan LePatner, a private equity executive. Did Wesley LePatner have children? Yes, Wesley LePatner had two children and often spoke about balancing motherhood with her career. Who was NYC shooter? The NYC mass shooting gunman was identified as Shane Tamura, 27, of Las Vegas. He acted alone and had a documented history of mental illness.

Scientists Witnessed the Birth of a Monster—8.3 Billion Years After It Happened
Scientists Witnessed the Birth of a Monster—8.3 Billion Years After It Happened

Yahoo

timea day ago

  • Science
  • Yahoo

Scientists Witnessed the Birth of a Monster—8.3 Billion Years After It Happened

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and other telescopes have shown what appears to be a supermassive black hole forming right between two merging galaxies. There have been multiple hypotheses surrounding supermassive black hole formation, but these observations support the hypothesis that suggests these behemoths are the result of immense clouds of shocked and compressed gas collapsing in on themselves. Future observations with Webb may finally confirm how supermassive black holes come into being. Supermassive black holes lurk in almost every large galaxy, including our own, but their origins are more elusive. Did they appear after the demise of gargantuan stars in the early universe? Do they form from smaller black holes that merge? Is it possible they emerge from monstrous clouds of star-forming gas that collapse in on themselves? That last hypothesis might be onto something. The pair of galaxies merging into what is now known as the Infinity Galaxy (so named because of its uncanny resemblance to the infinity symbol) is 8.3 billion light-years away, meaning we are seeing events unfold as they did that many billions of years ago. Between them is what astronomers now believe to be a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in its infancy. Whatever the object is, it is accreting tons upon tons of material, and supermassive black holes are known for their voracious appetites. Observations of this galaxy and the thing spawning in the middle might be the first hard evidence of a supermassive black hole being born. Each of the galaxies that collided to form the Infinity Galaxy have their own glowing nuclei containing supermassive black holes, but the one supposedly forming in between is unrelated to either of them—its source is apparently something else. The mystery convinced astronomers Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University and Gabriel Brammer of the University of Copenhagen, who discovered the nascent black hole while analyzing images from the COSMOS-Web survey of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, that what they were seeing was no ordinary star. Van Dokkum and Brammer backed their findings up by poring over data from observations made by the W.M. Keck Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and more data from the archives of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array. It was already strange that this black hole was not hiding in the nucleus of a galaxy, never mind that it was at the beginning of its life. Shrouded by clouds of gas between the two galaxies was most likely a supermassive black hole that probably formed from gas that had been shocked and compressed during the galactic merger, then collapsed in on itself. Witnessing one being born is unprecedented. 'The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,' they and their colleagues said in a study soon to be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. 'We suggest that the SMBH formed within this gas in the immediate aftermath of the collision, when it was dense and highly turbulent.' There are two main hypotheses for how supermassive black holes form. The 'light seeds' theory claims that supermassive black holes are the product of black holes that form after massive stars go supernova, collapsing in on themselves in violent explosions. These black holes then merge into larger black holes. The problem is that it would not only take an extremely long time for a supermassive black hole to form this way, this theory also cannot explain the existence of supermassive black holes, already observed by Webb, which were around when the universe was still young. The 'heavy seeds' hypothesis suggests that immense clouds of gas that collapse usually form stars, but sometimes, the gases collapse directly into supermassive black holes. This is the theory that seems to align with the more recent observations. About a few hundred million years after the universe dawned, clouds of gas in the middle of what would become galaxies collapsed. Hiding in those gaseous clouds were the seeds of supermassive black holes, whose powerful outflows and magnetic storms caused surrounding gas to collapse into multitudes of new stars. This explains the high populations of stars around galactic nuclei. 'If our proposed scenario is confirmed, the Infinity galaxy provides an empirical demonstration that direct-collapse formation of SMBHs can happen in the right circumstances—something that has so far only been seen in simulations and through indirect observations,' Brammer and van Dokkum said. More observations with Webb and other telescopes could finally reveal what a supermassive black hole's baby pictures look like. You Might Also Like The Do's and Don'ts of Using Painter's Tape The Best Portable BBQ Grills for Cooking Anywhere Can a Smart Watch Prolong Your Life? Solve the daily Crossword

China hopes for 'reciprocity' at trade talks with US in Stockholm
China hopes for 'reciprocity' at trade talks with US in Stockholm

Japan Today

time2 days ago

  • Business
  • Japan Today

China hopes for 'reciprocity' at trade talks with US in Stockholm

Talks between the world's top two economies are expected over two days as US President Donald Trump's trade policy enters a critical week By Nioucha Zakavati with Beiyi Seow in Washington China said on Monday it looked forward to ensuring "reciprocity" in trade with the United States, as top Beijing and Washington economic officials are set to renew negotiations in the Swedish capital Stockholm. Talks between the world's top two economies are expected over two days, with an extension of lower tariff levels on the cards as President Donald Trump's trade policy enters a critical week. Beijing said on Monday it hoped the two sides could hold talks in the spirit of "mutual respect and reciprocity". Foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said Beijing sought to "enhance consensus through dialogue and communication, reduce misunderstandings, strengthen cooperation and promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of China-US relations". For dozens of trading partners, failing to strike an agreement in the coming days means they could face significant tariff hikes on exports to the United States come Friday, August 1. The steeper rates, threatened against partners like Brazil and India, would raise the duties their products face from a "baseline" of 10 percent now to levels up to 50 percent. Tariffs imposed by the Trump administration have already effectively raised duties on US imports to levels not seen since the 1930s, according to data from The Budget Lab research centre at Yale University. For now, all eyes are on discussions between Washington and Beijing as a delegation including US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent meets a Chinese team led by Vice Premier He Lifeng in Sweden. In Stockholm, Chinese and US flags were raised in front of Rosenbad, the seat of the Swedish government. While both countries in April imposed tariffs on each other's products that reached triple-digit levels, US duties this year have temporarily been lowered to 30 percent and China's countermeasures slashed to 10 percent. But the 90-day truce, instituted after talks in Geneva in May, is set to expire on August 12. Since the Geneva meeting, the two sides have convened in London to iron out disagreements. China progress? - "There seems to have been a fairly significant shift in (US) administration thinking on China since particularly the London talks," said Emily Benson, head of strategy at Minerva Technology Futures. "The mood now is much more focused on what's possible to achieve, on warming relations where possible and restraining any factors that could increase tensions," she told AFP. Talks with China have not produced a deal but Benson said both countries have made progress, with certain rare earth and semiconductor flows restarting. "Secretary Bessent has also signalled that he thinks a concrete outcome will be to delay the 90-day tariff pause," she said. "That's also promising, because it indicates that something potentially more substantive is on the horizon." The South China Morning Post, citing sources on both sides, reported Sunday that Washington and Beijing are expected to extend their tariff pause by another 90 days. Trump has announced pacts so far with the European Union, Britain, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines, although details have been sparse. An extension of the US-China deal to keep tariffs at reduced levels "would show that both sides see value in continuing talks", said Thibault Denamiel, a fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. US-China Business Council president Sean Stein said the market was not anticipating a detailed readout from Stockholm: "What's more important is the atmosphere coming out." "The business community is optimistic that the two presidents will meet later this year, hopefully in Beijing," he told AFP. "It's clear that on both sides, the final decision-maker is going to be the president." For others, the prospect of higher US tariffs and few details from fresh trade deals mark "a far cry from the ideal scenario", said Denamiel. But they show some progress, particularly with partners Washington has signalled are on its priority list like the EU, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea. The EU unveiled a pact with Washington on Sunday while Seoul is rushing to strike an agreement, after Japan and the Philippines already reached the outlines of deals. Breakthroughs have been patchy since Washington promised a flurry of agreements after unveiling, and then swiftly postponing, tariff hikes targeting dozens of economies in April. burs-oho/mtp © 2025 AFP

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