Black Hole

It's possible the two black holes could merge within the next century. Credit: Deposit Photos Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Supermassive black holes literally don’t add up. Astrophysicists know it takes more time than is mathematically possible for one…

In 2023, scientists detected a subatomic particle called a neutrino hitting Earth with an energy level so extreme it seemed impossible. No known cosmic process can generate that much energy. The particle carried about 100,000 times more energy than anything ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful…

Mary Wansey has spent 19 bleak months stranded in a Canberra hospital room while she waits for a place in aged care. "We've fallen into a black hole," she said. "It just seems it doesn't matter what we do or where we apply." In August 2024, while she was living…

Skip to content LIGO data hints at supernovae so powerful they leave nothing behind Pair instability supernovae create a “mass gap” in black holes. Many of the early exoplanet discoveries were exciting on their own, confirming that there really were strange new worlds out in the Universe. But over time,…

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 14, April 2026.

Powerful radiation from active supermassive black holes, which are believed to sit at the center of most galaxies, can do more than shape their own surroundings. A new study led by Yongda Zhu at the University of Arizona suggests these black holes can also slow the formation of stars in…

Figures show a pattern of huge emergency spending followed by weak controls, missing records and massive write-offs. By  Lucy Johnston , Health and Social Affairs Editor of the Sunday Express 23:48, Sat, Mar 28, 2026 Updated: 00:04, Sun, Mar 29, 2026 £billions wasted in NHS black hole (Image: Getty) More…

Black holes are weird. You heard it here first. But really, they’re even more bizarre than most of us realize. They warp space. They warp time. They can spin so rapidly they wrap the fabric of spacetime around them like a warm blanket on a winter’s day. Despite greedily pulling…

Complaints about graffiti and maintenance issues may disappear into a Fix My Street "black hole" while repair requests may take more than four years to resolve, a report has noted. Subscribe now for unlimited access. or signup to continue reading BUY 6 MTHS / GET 6 FREE All articles from…

An illustration of the supermassive black hole IRAS 05189-2524 which the XRISM spacecraft watched spring back to life (Image credit: JAXA) The joint NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission XRISM has spotted a monster black hole awakening in a distant "starburst" galaxy. The research is revolutionary to black…