Black Hole

Today, developer Epic published some details about whats contained in Fortnites latest 11.20 patch. Epic calls the notes a battle royale update rather than the usual patch notes, which have been notably absent since the games Chapter 2 started in mid-October.…

For the first time, astrophysicists have observed a cosmic explosion emit particles that are a trillion times more energetic than visible light, a record-setting measurement from a phenomenon that scientists are still seeking to fully understand. The obser…

You've managed to travel tens of thousands of light-years beyond the solar system. Bravely facing the depths of the great interstellar voids, you've witnessed some of the most achingly beautiful and outrageously powerful events in the universe, from the birth…

In 1999 the late Douglas Adams penned a column for London's Sunday Times on gripes about the nascent Internet. Another problem with the net is that it's still technology, and technology, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is stuff tha…

Click here if you have Steam. What’s downloading is a true space oddity. Spacewar! was one of the first multiplayer games ever made. It was made before we landed on the moon, in 1962, and it ran on the PDP-1, MIT’s supercomputer. It’s a space shooter with t…

Scientists hope that the future of gravitational wave detection will allow them to directly observe a mysterious kind of black hole. Gravitational wave detectors have seen direct evidence of black holes with roughly the mass of giant stars, while the Event …

Astronomers have spotted a star speeding through our galaxy at more than 3,728,227 mph. And in 100 million years, it will leave the Milky Way for good. But where did it come from and why is it in such a hurry to leave? Astronomers using the 3.9-meter Anglo-A…

Everyone knows that the Earth revolves around the Sun, taking one year to complete a full revolution. But, the Sun is also revolving around our Milky Way galaxy, and it takes it 225 to 250 million years to complete one revolution. The Milky Way is a barred s…

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An artists impression issued by the Royal Astronomical Society of the ejection of a hyper-fast star from a black hole at the centre of the galaxy. (PA) Astronomers have sighted an ultra-fast star making its way across the universe at dizzying speed. Known a…