ATLAS maps the rare four-way intersections of the weak force
Despite its resounding success at describing high-energy phenomena, the Standard Model of particle physics provides no explanation for…
Solving the Black Hole Paradox May Require Seven Dimensions
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Black Holes from Before Big Bang Could Still Exist Today as ‘Cosmic Fossils’
New research by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga from the University of Portsmouth and the Institute of Space Sciences in…
Mind-blowing power and speed of black hole jets measured for the first time
For the first time, scientists have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole.…
Stephen Hawking’s infamous black hole paradox could be solved — if the universe has 7 dimensions
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Famous black hole jets’ energy measured in a first
Astronomers have long struggled to clock the speed and power of Cygnus X-1, a famous stellar-mass black hole…
This supermassive black hole is located in an unusual part of its galaxy
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a spiral galaxy. With the help of the James Webb Space…
This distant galaxy has lost 95% of its brightness in less than 20 years
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a spiral galaxy. Astronomers have discovered a galaxy located about 10…
Over 150 mergers reveal three different black hole origin stories
For years, astronomers treated merging black holes as if they all came from the same cosmic assembly line.…
Black hole merger may have triggered gamma-ray burst
In November 2024, gravitational-wave detectors recorded the violent merger of two black holes billions of light-years away. Normally,…
Astrophysicist Has a Plan to Launch a Chip-Sized, Laser-Powered Spacecraft Toward a Nearby Black Hole and Wait 100 Years for It to Send a Signal Home
Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. A new paper sketches a daring plan: launch a wafer-sized spacecraft toward the nearest black…
VLT Discovers Third Gas Cloud near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were…