
A black hole ‘burp’ devastated a distant galaxy cluster
A black hole carved a hole right through the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, which is located some 390 million light years from Earth. Astronomers believe the …
A black hole carved a hole right through the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, which is located some 390 million light years from Earth. Astronomers believe the …
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has spent the majority of its life studying the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. It was tasked with traveling to the asteroid, orbiting it, …
As far as astronomers know, the Big Bang is why we’re all here. The massive explosion sent all the matter we see in the universe …
Studying a galaxy from the inside can be a tricky thing, but astronomers have still managed to learn a great deal about our own Milky …
Of all the objects astronomers have observed in space over centuries of scientific investigation, black holes are one of the most bizarre and mysterious. Objects …
Astronomers in China have discovered something that technically shouldn’t even exist, at least according to what humans understand about space, black holes, and physics. Peering …
Way out on the edge of our solar system something big is lurking that has yet to be identified. Astronomers know it’s there because they …
Black holes are devastatingly powerful forces of nature, and nothing demonstrates their incredible might quite like seeing one tear apart a star. Recently, NASA’s sky-scanning …
Scientists may know more about black holes today than ever before, but that doesn’t make them any easier to see. By their very nature, black …
At the heart of our home galaxy is a supermassive black hole that gobbles up anything that gets too close. It’s huge, with a mass …
Like many galaxies, our own Milky Way is believed to revolve around a supermassive black hole. The location of the black hole, a feature known …
The Hubble Space Telescope, which is operated by NASA and the ESA, is fantastic for spotting objects residing in the distant reaches of space. Black …
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is somewhere you wouldn’t want to be. We have it pretty easy here on Earth, orbiting our star …
After years of work and a whole lot of hype, researchers working with the Event Horizon Telescope project finally unveiled the very first image ever …
As we expected, the international collaboration of scientists involved in the Event Horizon Telescope project have made good on their promise to provide the first-ever …
Well, the day is finally here. After centuries of wondering and developing technology capable of actually spotting a black hole, the international group of researchers …
For how much astronomers know about black holes — it’s a lot, trust me — it’s a bit of a shock that mankind has never …
Black holes are so strange that they’re kind of hard to wrap your brain around. They’re super-dense objects with gravitational pull so strong that nothing …
Black holes are some of the most interesting features of our universe, but they’re also not very well understood. Studying distant black holes in any …
Black holes are scary. They’re like bottomless pits that nothing can escape from, even light, and you probably wouldn’t want to get too close to …
What happens when a star dies? When most stars exhaust their bountiful supply of energy they enter a state where they become white dwarfs. These …
Albert Einstein dedicated his life to the pursuit of knowledge, even if he couldn’t always prove that his theories made sense. Many of the things …
Stephen Hawking dedicated the majority of his life to the pursuit of knowledge, focusing on physics and math in a quest to explain how the …
Scientists at the Australian National University have discovered the Universe’s fastest-growing black hole, a monster that gobbles up a mass the same size as Earth’s …
We’ve all felt the pressure that builds up in our stomach after a can of carbonated cola or a particularly filling meal, and no matter …
Scientists have known for a while that big and small black holes exist. The largest, supermassive black holes, lurk at the center of galaxies, while …
Interstellar is one of the best sci-fi movies of the last decade, imagining a post-apocalyptic human population that needs to be saved from a dying …