Black Hole

March 17, 2026 5 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm A boom in gravitational waves leaves scientists with more questions than answers A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes By K. R. Callaway edited by…

Sunday 15 March 2026 10:48 am  |   Updated:  Sunday 15 March 2026 10:49 am Children are set to work until 75 due to a pensions timebomb. Children currently in primary school are set to work until the age of 75 as the “collapsing” birthrate blows a black hole in public…

March 13, 2026 5 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Have astronomers found a runaway monster black hole or just a very weird galaxy? Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant black hole…

An Illustration of an eccentric neutron star–black hole binary. The neutron star’s path is shown in blue and the black hole’s motion in orange as the two objects orbit each other. (Image credit: Geraint Pratten, Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Birmingham) Scientists have discovered that before black holes…

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints from enormous primordial stars that were among the first to form after the Big Bang. For more than twenty years, astronomers have struggled to explain a major puzzle about the early universe...Read More

The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were all expelled by a pair of massive stars near the core of our Milky Way Galaxy. This VLT image shows the stars and gas surrounding Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in…

Could prime numbers be at the heart of black holes? (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Like physics, math has its own set of " fundamental particles " — the prime numbers , which can't be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves…

Cannibal orcas identified near Russia, two 'extinct' marsupials found, humans do cranial modification, China's oracle bones reveal climate disaster, and a barefoot volcanologist. (Image credit: ESA | Sergio Amiti via Getty Images) Science news this week was full of bizarre and baffling animal behavior, with news of chewed-up orca fins…

Scientists have discovered over 100 more gravitational wave events. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Our catalog of spacetime ripples "heard" by gravitational wave detectors here on Earth has doubled, scientists say, with newly discovered sources ranging from wobbly black hole mergers to the heaviest black hole collision detected…

Using the rules of general relativity, scientists taught robots to navigate 'artificial space-times,' with darker regions standing in for areas of intense gravity. (Image credit: Reinhardt et al. / CC-BY 4.0) Researchers have developed a method for steering microscopic swimming robots using light patterns and the principles of Einstein's theory…