Black Hole

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 …

There was no weirder, funnier, or more delightful story published on our website this past year than John Kennedys epic, 12-hour-plus attempt to make mac and cheese in a plastic bag, stovetop. Its got everything you might hope for in a work of serious first-p…

A new image released by NASA shows a gorgeous display of fireworks in a galaxy located about 23 million light-years away. However, it's not paper, powder and actual fire that's creating this stunning image, but a huge black hole, shock waves and vast amounts…

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…