Black Hole

It’s impossible to really understand the rivalry between UNC and Duke unless you’ve lived in North Carolina. I know, I know — that sounds pretentious as hell. It’s like someone with an apartment in New York saying “you don’t understand trees until you’ve walked through Central Park,” but I promise…

quantum physicsBy Charlie WoodMarch 29, 2022 Physicists are using quantum math to understand what happens when black holes collide. In a surprise, they’ve shown that a single particle can describe a collision’s entire gravitational wave. When two black holes collide, the titanic crash ripples out through the very fabric of…

Not all galaxies in the Universe are actively forming stars. An abundant population of inactive objects forms stars at significantly lower rates. What stops star formation in galaxies? This tends to be the biggest question in understanding galaxy evolution. Using Machine learning and state-of-art simulations, scientists from the University of…

Home News An artist's illustration of a black hole sucking in all the nearby matter in space. (Image credit: Alberto Gagliardi/Getty Images) What falls into a black hole, stays in a black hole, at least according to the laws of general relativity. But now, new research suggests that the material…

Black holes may not destroy all information about what they were originally made of, according to a new set of quantum calculations, which would solve a major physics paradox first described by Stephen Hawking Space 21 March 2022 By Leah Crane Artist concept of a supermassive black hole NASA/JPL-Caltech One…

Home News Space.com An artist's representation of a supermassive black hole. (Image credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser) Though scientists know there's a supermassive black hole at the center of most galaxies, they can't explain how the gravitational giants formed.  But physicists Hooman Davoudiasl, Peter Denton, and Julia Gehrlein of the U.S. Department…

Scientists believe they have cracked one of the most pressing mysteries surrounding black holes that has boggled experts for decades. Black holes are among the most extreme and strange objects we know of, birthed from the collapse of gigantic stars. They are objects with such an intense gravitational pull that…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers may have solved Professor Stephen Hawking's famous black hole paradox—a mystery that has puzzled scientists for almost half a century. According to two new studies, something called "quantum hair" is the answer to the problem. In the first paper, published in the journal Physical Review…

In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking found that an isolated black hole would emit radiation but only when considered quantum mechanics. This is known as black hole evaporation because the black hole shrinks. However, this led to the black hole information paradox. If the black hole evaporates entirely, physical information would…

Space is home to mysterious giants—black holes that have grown larger and faster than scientists expect. The formation of these behemoths may share a common root with another cosmic mystery, dark matter, according to a recent study. Astrophysicists know that violent deaths of stars can form black holes typically up…