A black smoker (Image: NOAA)
EVEN Jules Verne didn’t foresee this. Down at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is the hottest water on Earth, in a “supercritical” state never seen before in nature.
The fluid spews from a pair of black smokers called Two Boats and Sisters Peak, and could offer a glimpse of how minerals such as gold, copper and iron are leached out of the entrails of the Earth and released into the…
