Runaway Black Hole Escapes Its Galaxy—and It’s Leaving Baby Stars in Its Wake
A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving…
Astronomers Caught a Spacetime Whirlpool Around a Black Hole as First Predicted by Einstein. “This is a Real Gift for Physicists”
An artist’s impression depicts the accretion disk surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the…
Astronomers May Have Finally Solved the Mystery of These Freaky Blue Cosmic Flashes
The cosmos is so full of mysteries that sometimes, astronomers will find answers to things you’ve probably never…
Astronomers discover spacetime drag around a supermassive black hole — as predicted by Einstein
A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds…
Not every galaxy may have its own black hole
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A new…
NASA’s Chandra Finds Small Galaxies May Buck the Black Hole Trend
Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using…
Is the universe ending sooner than we thought? New physics suggests a much shorter lifespan |
New physics reveals detailed calculations showing the universe’s end may come far sooner than expected, with an exact…
Scientists May Have Finally Seen Dark Matter
The universe has no shortage of mysteries, many of which have puzzled us for ages. One of the…
After nearly a century of looking, researchers may have finally detected dark matter
For nearly a century, something unseen has tugged at the cosmos. In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky…
Should You Be Worried About a Tiny Black Hole Hitting Your Body?
What would happen if you got hit by a primordial black hole? In a study published this summer…
Balloon telescope sheds new light on pulsars and black holes
Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy…
That Black Hole Merger That ‘Shouldn’t’ Exist’? Scientists Propose a Wild Explanation
When LIGO broke news of an unintelligibly large black hole merger earlier this year, physicists were stunned but…