Black Hole

Black holes are dark spots in the fabric of space-time , incredibly dense singularities with such strong gravity that nothing can escape their clutches. They spend their time doing one thing: gobbling up matter. Get close enough to a black hole, and you're c…

What a decade its been for astronomy and space! The Earth tied its all-time record for 10 full orbits around the Sun, long-term missions like New Horizons, Kepler, and Hubble produced years of results, and more photons than ever before poured into the CCDs of…

From asteroids and (interstellar) comets to black holes and the sun, 2019 has been full of amazing space science. This past year has been a fantastic one for astronomy and planetary science. On New Year's Day, two spacecraft reached their targets, and things…

The first image of a black hole , previously thought nigh impossible to capture, was named the top scientific breakthrough of 2019 by the journal Science. Black holes have gravitational pulls so powerful that, past thresholds known as their event horizons…

Scientists can often make indirect measurements that tell us about things we can't actually see. For scientists who work on molecules, such as myself, this is especially true: Many of the small and large molecules that dance in my head are objects that I've n…

An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of a black hole.A simulation of matter swirling around the black hole at the center of Messier 87 and radiating at different wavelengths. A bright ring of light orbiting the black hole's s…

From top to bottom: Hong Kong protests by Vincent Yu, Greta Thunberg by Maja Hitij, the first image of a black hole, dog sled in Greenland by Steffen Olsen, Megan Rapinoe by Franck Fife, Hong Kong protests by Kin Cheung. What a decade this year has been, righ…

One hundred mysterious red objects in the sky have vanished inexplicably over the last 70 years. One possible explanation for their disappearance: alien technology.  The discovery of these disappearing objects came out of a project called "Vanishing and Appe…

This illustration depicts a gas halo surrounding a quasar in the early universe. The quasar, in orange, has two powerful jets and a supermassive black hole at its center surrounded by a dusty disc. The gas halo of glowing hydrogen gas is represented in blue.E…

A comparative analysis of historical and contemporary astronomical data has resulted in the discovery of approximately 100 star-like objects that unexpectedly vanished. These strange occurrences are likely natural, but scientists say alien technology is a rem…