Black Hole

This is a trippy video detailing the 'black hole' technique of pouring layered acrylic paint on a black canvas and continuously tilting the canvas to create a cool design. That's fun. In process it kinda looks like a painting of an eyeball following me around…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain RUDN astrophysicists have proposed a new method for approximate calculation of the parameters of spherically symmetric black holes in the Einstein-Maxwell theory. By comparing the shadow radii of the black holes obtained via this method with exact numerical solutions, astrophysicists have revealed that the approximation they…

One of the indelible hallmarks of science is internationalism. While national scientific communities may have distinctively different characteristics—British empiricism, French rationalism and American pragmatism come to mind—the end products are almost universally agreed upon once scientists in a given discipline attain consensus. Unlike politics, science knows no boundaries. And so…

January 25, 2020 AT 12:31 am via Astronomy Now“These objects look like gas and behave like stars,” said Andrea Ghez, director of the UCLA Galactic Center Group and co-author of a paper published in the journal Nature. Ghez and her colleagues discovered the first object, later named G1, in 2005.…

Star Trek: Picard takes place years ahead in the Star Trek Prime timeline, where it finds Captain Jean-Luc Picard having retired from his career in Starfleet. The series also includes a lot of references to Trek history and storylines from different sources, including Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star…

Star Trek: Picard takes place years ahead in the Star Trek Prime timeline, where it finds Captain Jean-Luc Picard having retired from his career in Starfleet. The series also includes a lot of references to Trek history and storylines from different sources, including Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star…

A mysterious deep space event could have stretched and squeezed Earth last week. Astronomers observed a split-second burst of gravitational waves on Jan. 14, but they can't figure out precisely where the burst came from. These waves are disturbances in spac…

Home News Science & Astronomy (Image: © Shutterstock) A mysterious cosmic event might have ever-so-slightly stretched and squeezed our planet last week. On Jan. 14, astronomers detected a split-second burst of gravitational waves, distortions in space-time … but researchers don't know where this burst came from. The gravitational wave signal, picked…

A new search led by Montana State University astrophysicist Amy Reines has revealed more than a dozen massive black holes in dwarf galaxies that were previously considered too small to host them, surprising scientists with their location within the galaxies. Credit: MSU. Credit: Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez A new search led by…

Could the universe we see around us actually be two-dimensional? The idea may seem ludicrous, but the universe has shown before it is a very weird place. In this case, a strange paradox centering on black holes shows that there is a gap in our understanding of relativity and quantum…