Black Hole

In the nearly five years since their first direct detection, gravitational waves have become one of the hottest topics in astronomy. With facilities such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), researchers have mostly used these rip…

Climbing out of the black hole called credit card debt seems impossible. Since credit cards have such high interest rates, making the minimum payment can feel like the cards will never get paid off. Many of us have thousands of dollars in credit card debt. …

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Black holes will devour whatever matter they encounter. Although this is a great way for black holes... to grow, it seems paradoxical, since none of the matter will ev… Read More

The jets emanating from a famous black hole are cruising along at about 99% the speed of light, according to new observations. Researchers spotted the speedy jets emanating from a black hole in the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) — the same black hole that was image…

For the second time ever, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has spotted two ultradense stellar remnants known as neutron stars violently crashing together. The gravitational wave event seems to have been generated by particularly …

Scientists have confirmed the detection of a ripple in spacetime created when two hyperdense objects, called neutron stars, collided 520 million light years from Earth. Together, the two neutron stars are about 3.4 times more massive than the Sun, making this system the biggest pair of neutron stars ever detected…

One morning I woke up to see the front page of every newspaper across the world covered with pictures of what looked like a big orange doughnut. What could this represent? I learned that the doughnut picture was rendered by combining images taken from telesco…

(CNN)Our solar system resides in one of the Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms, and for the first time, astronomers have realized we're close to a giant wave-shaped gaseous structure that connects star nurseries. This wave -- now known as the "Radcliffe Wave" f…

To kickstart the 30th anniversary year of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble has imaged a majestic spiral galaxy. Galaxy UGC 2885 may be the largest known in the local universe. It is 2.5 times wider than our Milky Way and contains 10 times as many s…

(Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.) The post-Walt and Roy Disney era of Disney was a fascinating and very weird one. In the 70s, Walts son-in-law Ron Miller took over …