Black Hole

Astronomers using the GBT have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, a rapidly spinning pulsar approximately 4,600 light-years from Earth. This record-breaking object is teetering on the edge of existence, approaching the theoretical maximum mass …

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin X-ray brightness of a black hole shows periodic fluctuations. ESA/XMM-Newton; G. Miniutti & M. Giustini (CAB, CSIC-INTA, Spain) Black holes are an astronomical …

Cast your mind back four years, and gravitational waves were the talk of the town. On September 14, 2015, the first detection of these ripples in space-time was made by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, revealed months later to deserved global fanfare. Now with t…

Two University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein's equations to model the growth of the universe.Physicists usually assume that a cosmologically large system, such as the universe,…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin This simulation shows the radiation emitted from a binary black hole system. In principle, we should have neutron star binaries, black hole binaries, and neutron star-blac…

Theres not much more that feels better than tearing up a completed to-do list at the end of the day, which is why Ive never moved to keeping track of my tasks electronically. Destroying a diary, as youll be doing in If Found might be a less appealing process,…

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh should have come to New Brunswick to meet with people who "may not have had any exposure to people from different cultures," says a former party exec.  The NDP has failed to nominate a single federal election candidate in New Brunswi…

Mergers of this magnitude are so violent they rattle the fabric of space-time, releasing gravitational waves that spread through the cosmos like ripples on a pond. These mergers also fuel cataclysmic explosions that create heavy metals in an instant, showerin…

Artists illustration of two colliding neutron stars.NASA/Swift/Dana Berry The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) famously detects gravitational waves by looking at the collisions of black holes. It also looks at collisions of other co…

Everybody wants a wormhole. I mean, who wants to bother traveling the long-and-slow routes throughout the universe, taking tens of thousands of years just to reach yet another boring star? Not when you can pop into the nearest wormhole opening, take a short s…