Black Hole

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…

A century ago, Albert Einstein became famous. Sure, he was already well-known among physicists. But the world at large learned his name only after November 1919, when news broke that his theory of gravity had been confirmed—to the dismay of many fans of Isaa…

The G objects orbit Sgr A* in skewed ellipses, large and small, just as the visible stars do, which supports the notion that the same objects ultimately make up both groups. Rough estimates of population size and age also match the merger idea, but the theory…

Astronomers from the UCLA Galactic Center Orbits Initiative have discovered a new class of objects that are orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. That black hole is called Sagittarius A, and the team says that the bizarre objects look like gas and behave like stars.…

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Home News Science & Astronomy An artist's depiction of a dwarf galaxy with a massive black hole highlighted. (Image: © Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF) Astronomers have detected several supermassive black holes wandering through their dwarf host galaxies, providing new clues about how similar black holes evolved in the early universe. Using the…