Black Hole

Last night The Flash returned for its sixth season. It was, in many ways, a season premiere of The Flash (its almost like the shows done six of those!): a new villain to face, some time travel bullshit, some crossover teasing, Iris is doing a journalism again…

The Milky Way galaxy is home to all life as we know it, but about 3.5 million years ago, something strange and "dramatic" happened to it — a massive explosion in its center. According to a new study, the galaxy was hit with an energy flare, near an enormous …

(CNN)  Around 3.5 million years ago, a gigantic energy flare punched out from the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The radiation it released erupted in two energized cones that were so powerful, the impact was felt 200,000 light-years away. The flare, ca…

Image copyrightPress AssociationImage caption Artists' impression of the giant flare in the Milky Way A cataclysmic energy flare ripped through our galaxy, the Milky Way, about 3.5 million years ago, a team of astronomers say. They say the so-called Sifte…

This spring, scientists released the first-ever image of a black hole — but what they really want is to create a movie of a black hole. For that, the team will need to involve more instruments in the project, and the Event Horizon Telescope just got mone…

Fifty years after humans first stepped onto the moon, Mars has become the next frontier in space exploration. On Saturday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled a rocket prototype called Starship Mark 1: the next step in his company's quest to build a launch system …

Artist's concept of Planet Nine... but is it actually a planet? Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Astronomers have long speculated about the existence of "Planet 9", a super-Earth-sized planet in the outer regions of our solar system. It's been hypothesized as an expl…

This is an image from the Romulus simulation depicting the network of structures that assemble on intergalactic scales, revealing where the galaxies hosting black holes form. More massive galaxies that host more massive black holes tend to live in hotter (red…

Black holes on your mind? You're in luck because NASA has a new visualization showing how these immense objects work. Black holes are regions of extremely high density that warp space around them to such an extent that it traps matter and light. If any obj…

For nearly five years, growing numbers of researchers have blamed the weird orbits of distant solar system objects on the gravitational effects of an as-yet-undiscovered Planet Nine that lies in the icy realm far beyond Neptune. But a pair of scientists is no…