Record-Breaking Black Hole Wind Blasts Through Space at 30% the Speed of Light
An artist’s impression of a quasar. The black dot in the center represents the supermassive black hole at…
Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found
A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed…
Scientists Think a Cosmic Particle Accelerator Shot a Mystery Particle Right at Earth
A new paper in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics has put forth an intriguing theory: A…
Astronomers Detect a Close Pair of Supermassive Black Holes for the First Time
The artistic rendering shows the center of the galaxy Markarian 501, from which two powerful jets emanate. The…
Scientists Say Supermassive Black Holes Could Be Surrounded by Millions of Planets
Artist’s rendition of a supermassive black hole. Credit: WikiMedia Commons At the center of most large galaxies sits…
Hubble Captures Active Spiral Galaxy: Messier 88
A newly-released Hubble image shows Messier 88, a black hole-powered spiral galaxy that is gradually plunging toward the…
New 7-Dimensional Theory May Finally Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox
Researchers propose that extra-dimensional spacetime torsion prevents black holes from fully evaporating, leaving remnants that preserve quantum information.…
A ‘Black Hole’ in Your Consciousness Makes You See a Unique Version of Reality, Neuroscientists Say
Abyssal whirlpools lurking somewhere in deep space, swallowing light and guarding the mysteries of the universe. That is…
The Universe’s Most Powerful Particles May Be Even Stranger Than Scientists Thought
Artist’s impression of an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray reaching Earth. New research suggests that some of the highest-energy cosmic…
ATLAS observes new Bc meson excited state
The ATLAS Collaboration reports the first observation of the Bc*+ meson – a new composite particle state containing…
Scientists Reveal a Bizarre Space-Time Structural Phenomenon That Could Be Creating Baby Black Holes
The space-time oddities of modern physics may have just been taken to a new level of odd, as…
The Fastest-Known Star Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole Has Been Spotted—Now It Could Help Test Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
The fastest-moving star, S301, was discovered recently by Stefan Gillessen’s team at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial…