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A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually ...
New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in forming the ...
It seems obvious, then, that, cosmically speaking, everything spins—but this basic fact becomes downright bizarre in the head ...
The first black hole images stunned the world in 2019, with headlines announcing evidence of a glowing doughnut-shaped object ...
Exploring the BTZ black hole in (2+1)-dimensional gravity took me down a fascinating rabbit hole, connecting ideas I never ...
These star-shredding black holes sit within dusty galaxies that block many telescopes’ views. That’s not an issue for JWST.
"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...
Using a powerful mathematical tool, scientists have unveiled the intricate "ringing" of black holes, unlocking patterns missed for decades and laying the groundwork for sharper gravitational wave ...
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
In fact, only three factors can be used to define a black hole: its mass, its angular momentum and its electric charge. In reality, that charge will be neutral or very close to it, so in practical ...
Seismic pressure is building along the Tintina fault line, stretching from Canada's Yukon Territory to Alaska. Using the ...
The term for this gruesome process is actually " spaghettification ," according to NASA, inspired by Stephen Hawking's book, ...