Black Hole

Space A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole merger By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit Email Illustration of merging of black holes Shutterstock / Jurik Peter A record-breaking black hole smash-up just expanded…

Gravitational waves —ripples in space-time caused by violent cosmic events—travel at the speed of light in every direction, eventually fading out like ripples in water. But some events are so destructive and extreme that they create disturbances in spacetime more like powerful waves than small ripples, with enough energy to…

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We've officially made it to the end of Playdate Season Two, and what a season it's been. Despite having half the number of titles as Season One, this latest round of weekly game releases has made a much stronger impression (on me, at least). If nothing else, it's just been…

Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to act as an anchor for an entire galaxy. These black holes are being being referred to as “lite” intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH), and they’re extremely…

Forty years ago an amateur Scottish paleontologist named Stan Wood made a fascinating discovery, uncovering Westlothiana lizziae , nicknamed “Lizzie.” The ancient salamander filled a niche that geologists had been after for years, marking the transition of the first animals from water to land. The earliest life began with the…

An illustration of a very massive star ejecting vast amounts of matter into space (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Very massive stars that collapse to create black holes may vomit out much more material during their short lives than we previously thought. To fit with astronomical observations of…

You're probably tired by now of hearing all about "black holes". It's one of those phrases trotted out by journalists in an effort to make economic policy sound a little more interesting. And in some senses it's a massively misleading image. After all, when people talk about fiscal holes, what…

The 54-74 intersection.  New drivers fear it, seasoned drivers dislike it, and other drivers of varying persuasions take seemingly more time-consuming alternate routes to avoid sitting in this intersection.  At least one citizen has been heard referring to it as “the black hole.”  As we all know, this area is…

A vast cloud of energetic particles surrounding a cluster of galaxies that existed around four billion years after the Big Bang could help scientists discover how the early universe took shape. But was the halo of the massive cluster of galaxies — called SpARCS104922.6+564032.5, and located 9.9 billion light-years from…