Black Hole

Of the well-loved products that Patagonia has created over the years — from ultralight synthetic insulation jackets to iconic fleeces — the Black Hole duffel is one that has weathered the years. The utilitarian gear hauler is made rugged enough to handle the …

Isolated for billions of years, a galaxy with more dark matter packed into its core than expected has been identified by astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The galaxy, known as Markarian 1216 (abbreviated as Mrk 1216), contains sta…

Kids looks like a physics toy, an arty, knockabout playful thing. There are cartoon crowds. There's a cartoon black hole. You run a finger or a cursor over the stuff on the screen and see what happens. But "cartoon" isn't quite right and Kids isn't a physics…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin From outside a black hole, all the infalling matter will emit light and always is visible, while nothing from behind the event horizon can get out. But if you were the one who fell into a black hole, wha…

If you’ve never heard of Patagonia’s Black Hole duffel bags, you’ve likely spotted one in an airport, foreign train station or strapped to the roof of an overlander. Patagonia built the weather-resistant and sturdy bags to last decades with a rugged TPU-lamin…

Physicists have been working on an experiment in the laboratory that has to do with black holes. The experiment has confirmed that a prediction the late Stephen Haking made about black holes was correct. The black hole that the team created in their lab isn’t…

The explosions that blew apart the universe’s first stars are shrouded in mystery. These energetic blasts are inherently difficult to recreate in computer simulations, even using modern computing power. “It’s one of the hardest physics problems out there,” sa…

Imagine if we could hop over to our nearest massive galaxy neighbor Andromeda and check out what our Milky Way looks like from the outside. Or, want to know if the recently discovered Earth-like exoplanet is habitable? Send a probe over to check! The main ch…

On May 29, 1919, the young English astronomer Arthur Eddington (December 28, 1882–November 22, 1944) catapulted Albert Einstein into celebrity by proving the most significant scientific model of the universe since Newtonian gravity: the general theory of rela…

On May 29, 1919, a solar eclipse forever altered our conception of gravity, rewrote the laws of physics and turned a 40-year-old, wild-haired scientist into a global celebrity — the very personification of scientific genius. It was a very good day for Albert…