Black Hole

Ok, this post doesn’t have anything to do with boy detective Encyclopedia Brown …I just needed him for the title. In the NY Times, art critic Jason Farago argues that in order to improve the visitor experience at the Louvre, the Mona Lisa and her smile have g…

Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, traveling at a blistering 6 million km/h, that was ejected by the supermassive black hole at the heart at the Milky Way five million years ago.The discovery of the star, known as S5-HVS1, was made by Carnegie Mellon…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin This simulation shows the radiation emitted from a binary black hole system. In principle, we should... have neutron star binaries, black hole binaries, and neutron st…

Dean Spanos, the Los Angeles Chargers chairman, quickly shot down a report that the NFL was ... considering moving his club to London. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy) ASSOCIATED PRESS The Los Angeles Chargers are preparing for their final trip to play at the Oak…

Sixty years ago, mankind got its very first glimpse of the far side of the Moon, so called because it faces away from the Earth. (And as astronomers like Neil DeGrasse Tyson have long taken pains to point out to Pink Floyd fans, it isn't "dark.") Taken by the…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The “Oscars of Science” had a very space-y feel. The theme of the ceremony for the eighth annual Breakthrough Prize, which was held last night (Nov. 3) here at NASA’s Ames Research Center, was "Seeing the Invisible," a nod to the Even…

Black holes are thought of as cosmic leviathans, capable of destroying planets and stars. However, ... in many respects they are essentially just heavy and dark stars. Getty Generally speaking, black holes are the corpse of a dead star. But not…

A good insult is a demonstration of power. A bad insult is a demonstration of powerlessness. This is true whether youre punching up or down. (I recommend you punch up.) If you want your insults to damage your enemy and not yourself, you need to insult strateg…

A black hole only 3.3 times the mass of the sun may have been spotted, according to results published in Science. What is it? The black hole is located about 10,000 light-years away, in the outer edge of the Milky Ways main disk. If it is confirmed, this wou…

Scientists may have found the smallest black hole ever detected thanks to a new technique of combining multiple datasets, according to a study published on Thursday in Science. The black hole is around 3.3 times as massive as the Sun, scientists believe, an…