Can a black hole split into two in accordance with Einstein’s general relativity?
A theoretical study examines which laws prevent black holes from splitting and where altered assumptions might permit fragmentation.Rapid…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope prepares to unleash a flood of new cosmic discoveries
Roman is designed to return about 1.4 terabytes of data daily, with observations becoming publicly available after processing.A…
New large-sized telescope array in Spain ushers in a new era in exploring the extreme universe
Four 23-meter telescopes on La Palma mark the completion of construction for CTAO-North’s Large-Sized Telescope sub-array.Their large mirrors…
Top Comments: Conditions That Produce Jets from Black Holes Are Independent of Black Hole Mass
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NASA Highlights Lessons Learned From Swift Boost Mission
A commercial mission to boost NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory concluded without raising the spacecraft’s orbit, but the…
Scientists outline how spacecraft could reach a nearby black hole within a century
A speculative mission concept proposes sending laser-powered, gram-scale spacecraft to a black hole that could potentially exist within…
Black hole ‘hair’ could reveal hidden matter after two black holes collide
A new theoretical framework suggests that “hair” around black holes, representing surrounding matter or departures from the simplest…
JWST finds mysterious red objects pairing up in the early universe
JWST images have revealed four candidate pairs of “little red dots,” compact early-universe objects increasingly associated with rapidly…
The universe may contain a staggering 40 quintillion black holes
Astronomers estimate that about 40 quintillion stellar-mass black holes exist within the observable universe, a number written as…
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in…
The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos
To test these new ideas, researchers are exploring the infant universe through simulations. “There’s actually been really remarkable…
How do supermassive black holes grow? AI finds 7 spacetime-warping ‘quasars’ that could help solve the mystery
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