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Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...
Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...
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 explore why having a black hole in our Solar System would be a catastrophic scenario.
Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...
Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.
In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...
Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...
"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly ...
A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...