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Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...
What if black holes aren't just gravity's beasts—but clues to the deepest mystery in physics? :milky_way: In this video, we ...
Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...
The bold question-askers at What If imagine the cosmic consequences of a collision between a black hole and a white hole.
Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...
Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...
Black hole singularities defy the laws of physics. New research presents a bold solution to this puzzle: Black holes may actually be a theoretical type of star called a 'gravastar,' filled with ...
Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day.. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...
One of my favorite celestial objects in the universe is the black hole. Granted, I'm an astrophysicist. But I know I'm not alone. People love black holes. They seem to hold a near-mythic status in ...
"The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, has a mass of approximately four million times that of the Sun, but it only looks like a tiny dot from Earth ...
A black hole located approximately 1,500 light years from our solar system, discovered in the constellation Monoceros, pulls at a nearby red giant star, distorting its light in an undated ...