DESI Hints Dark Energy Isn’t What We Thought
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope…
Astronomers Uncover “Mysterious Giant” Lurking Behind Binary Black Holes
Binary black hole merger near a supermassive black hole. Credit: SHAO GW190814’s gravitational waves suggest a hidden supermassive…
Black holes that transform matter into dark energy could solve ‘cosmic hiccups’ mystery
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There’s Something Really Suspicious About the Way This Star Died
Stellar death is a complex and mysterious process — but in the case of a supernova known as…
Scientists use Stephen Hawking theory to propose ‘black hole morsels’ — strange, compact objects that could reveal new physics
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Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring
Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion…
Astrophysicist Proposes Interstellar Mission to Study Black Holes
In a new paper published in the journal iScience, an astrophysicist from Fudan University discusses the possibility of…
‘Ice cube’ clouds discovered at the galaxy’s center shouldn’t exist — and they hint at a recent black hole explosion
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The Universe’s First “Little Red Dots” May Be a New Kind of Star With a Black Hole Inside
By all rights, they shouldn’t exist. When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first opened its eyes to…
Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Caught Eating Star in NGC 6099
The newly-discovered intermediate-mass black hole, named NGC 6099 HLX-1, resides in a compact star cluster on the outskirts…
Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Over the past decade, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network has…
Extending the ARM of ATLAS computing
With data from the ongoing LHC Run 3 continuing to mount, and the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) expected to…