SPACE: Astronomers Watch Black Hole Turn Star Into Spaghetti
A black hole in a galaxy not far from Earth gobbled up a star like it was a big, exploding noodle, and astronomers got a front-row seat to the action. … Read more
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SPACE: Wait, Black Holes Have Hair?
The information locked inside black holes could be detected by feeling their ‘hair,’ new research suggests. Black holes are celestial objects with such massive gravity that not even light can … Read more
The Turducken of the Cosmos
Astronomers think they might be able to detect black holes falling into wormholes using ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves, but only if wormholes actually exist and such a … Read more
SPACE: Strange Signal From a Mystery Object
A signal from space first detected Aug. 14, 2019, may have come from a mystery object. And it might force physicists to rip up an old idea about black holes … Read more
SPACE: How Close Can You Get to a Black Hole?
Streams of gas fall to their dooms, plunging into black holes, locked away from the universe forever. In their final moments, these gassy shreds send out one last flare of … Read more
Astronomers Find Black Hole “Close” to Solar System
A newfound black hole may be the closest black hole to Earth, and you can spot its cosmic home in the night sky without a telescope. The black hole, which … Read more
SPACE: Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole May Have a Friend
Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that the answer is yes, and in fact, pairs of supermassive black holes should be common in the … Read more
SPACE: Astronomers Discover (Too) Big Black Hole
A gigantic stellar black hole 15,000 light-years from Earth is twice as massive as what researchers thought was possible in our own galaxy. The black hole is 70 times more … Read more
SPACE: Do Massive Black Holes Keep Galaxies Alive?
Supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies may be blasting hot, turbulent waves of gas through the cosmos, keeping galaxy clusters alive with their heat. And for the first … Read more
SPACE: Are We Wrong About Black Holes?
If you were to dive into a black hole (something we would not recommend), you”d likely find a singularity, or an infinitely small and dense point, at the center. Or … Read more