I saw that Fisher-Price recalled some sort of bedding, but I don’t know which product. Can you help?

Fisher-Price recalled nearly 5 million infant sleepers on Friday after more than 30 babies died in them over a 10-year period.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said anyone who bought a Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play sleeper should stop using it and contact the company for a refund or voucher.

The sleepers are soft padded cradles that vibrate.

Fisher-Price and the CPSC said the deaths occurred after infants rolled over from their backs to their stomachs or sides while unrestrained. Neither company explained how the infants died, though Consumer Reports said some of the infants died from suffocation.

In a statement Friday, Fisher-Price said it stood by the safety of its products and said it issued the voluntary recall “due to reported incidents in which the product was used contrary to the safety warnings and instructions.”

The recall covers about 4.7 million sleepers, which sold for between $40 and $149 since 2009.

Black hole

Is Earth in danger of the black hole found this week?

No. To borrow from “Star Wars,” it’s in a galaxy far, far away.

Scientists released the first-ever image made of a black hole, revealing a fiery doughnut-shaped object in a galaxy 53 million light-years from Earth.

“Science fiction has become science fact,” University of Waterloo theoretical physicist Avery Broderick, one of the leaders of the research team of about 200 scientists from 20 countries, declared as the colorized orange-and-black picture was unveiled this week.

A black hole is a dense, compact object whose gravitational pull is so strong that — within a certain distance of it — nothing can escape, not even light, according to NASA. Black holes are thought to result from the collapse of massive stars at the ends of their evolution. The gravity is so strong because the mass has been squeezed into such a tiny space.

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