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…
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…
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…
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…
Black Hole Eats Star: NASA Missions Discover Record-Setting Blast
Astronomers have been poring over a flood of data from NASA satellites and other facilities as they try…
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…
James Webb Space Telescope watches our Milky Way galaxy’s monster black hole fire out a flare
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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…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
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…