Strange gravitational waves may reveal dark matter near merging black holes
The evidence for dark matter is everywhere and the evidence for dark matter is nothing. Galaxies rotate in…
Astronomers Find a New Clue for Detecting Runaway Supermassive Black Holes
Artist’s rendition of an Active Galactic Nucleus with the accretion disk highlighted. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s…
‘What we found was striking’: Physicists detect new kind of signal from a black hole’s ‘point of no return’
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Astronomers Just Heard the “Last Sound” a Black Hole Made
A new technique will enable astrophysicists to study the strength of extreme gravity at the black hole’s horizon.…
Astronomers Discover a Sleeping Giant: Ancient Black Hole 6 Billion Times the Sun’s Mass
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster…
The Milky Way’s black hole is eerily quiet. Scientists have now found evidence of its missing wind
Scientists say they have detected evidence of cosmic-scale wind coming from a supermassive black hole at the center…
A Dying Star Could Trigger the Birth of a New Universe, Scientists Say
A new study suggests that the collapse of a dying star may not always end in the formation…
Black Holes Aren’t Real? Astronomers Propose Elusive Formation Mechanism for “Gravastar” Alternative That is “Easier to Accept”
Scientists from Goethe University, Frankfurt, studying alternatives to black holes have suggested a mathematically viable formation mechanism for…
Can black holes send information back in time?
If something is allowed by the laws of physics, then scientists can assume that it probably exists. Under…
Scientists Develop a New Way To Measure Gravitational Waves in the Expanding Universe
Gravitational waves are typically studied as faint disturbances moving through otherwise quiet spacetime, but the situation becomes far…
Astronomers Unveil Record-Breaking Haul of 161 New Black Hole Collisions
A major new release of gravitational-wave detections is offering researchers an unprecedented view of some of the universe’s…
The Strange “Spacetime Crystal” That Can Suddenly Turn Into a Black Hole
Physicists have long known that black holes do not necessarily have to form from collapsing stars. Under the…