Black Hole

The headquarters of the European Meteorological Satellite Agency in Darmstadt, Germany (city of science!), was easy to spot: It is shaped like one of their early weather satellites, with a central cylinder and protruding wings. In the gardens outside, large-…

Black holes are elusive and powerful regions of space. They have inspired sci-fi writers, scientists and space fans to peer into the deepest mysteries of the universe.  Nothing, not even light, can escape from a black hole's strong gravitational field. We ha…

The carousel turn at Sonoma Raceway is, like a carousel at the carnival, a nice feature that makes everyone smile. Also like the kind at a carnival, the carousel is highly traffickedby racing series, track-day schools and more. But NASCAR stopped using it in …

Black holes are engines of destruction on a cosmic scale, but they may also be the bringers of life. New research on supermassive black holes suggests that the radiation they emit during feeding frenzies can create biomolecular building blocks and even power …

A blazar is an active black hole hurling jets of material directly at Earth. (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab) The Event Horizon Telescope made history on April 10 when it captured the first image of a supermassive black holes event horizon a…

Keanu Reeves has had a long career full of so-called momentshis breakthrough with Bill and Ted, his surprise turn as a 90s action star, then becoming an even bigger action star with The Matrixbut this summer might somehow, inexplicably, be his biggest yet. He…

If the Sun was suddenly replaced with a black hole of the same mass, what would happen to Earth? Let’s take a few steps back into the black hole’s and study the star that it once was. Stars form when matter accretes within a cloud of gas and dust, heats…

Each episode will tackle developments in space exploration, astronomy and astrophysics. The first one, for instance, will take a look at how the Gemini Observatory was able to detect an ancient quasar, which is the farthest object we've ever seen. Another epi…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Illustration of a black hole tearing apart and devouring a star. Contrary to most popular representations, the overwhelming majority of matter accreted by the black hole or otherwise brought into its vic…

Antitrust regulation of Facebook by the government? Don’t bank on it. Facebook is already too big to fail, too big to jail, a black hole of money & power. Zuckerberg has come up with the perfect formula for world domination as banks, governments, payment …