Black Hole

Ultralight bosons — hypothetical particles with masses less than a billionth the mass of an electron — could be responsible for the Universe’s dark matter. In new research, an international team of physicists from the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium and Hong Kong searched for ultralight bosons using fast-spinning black…

Ultralight bosons are theoretical particles that have a mass of less than a billionth of the mass of an electron. As they rarely interact with their surroundings, they thus have far eluded searches to confirm their existence. If they are present, then the ultralight boson, such as axions, will form…

ScienceA massive effort to view a black hole in multiple ways is helping scientists untangle what happens when gravity is pushed to extremes. ByNadia Drake Published April 14, 2021 • 9 min read In the heart of a gargantuan galaxy 55 million light-years away, a black hole with the heft…

The two newly-discovered pairs of quasars, J0749+2255 and J0841+4825, existed 10 billion years ago and resided in the cores of merging galaxies, according to a team of astronomers from the United States and Japan. This artist’s conception shows the brilliant light of two quasars residing in the cores of two…

As part of the Clusters Hiding in Plain Sight (CHiPS) survey, astronomers have discovered three new galaxy cluster candidates and confirmed two of them: CHIPS 1356-3421 and CHIPS 1911+4455. This Hubble image shows the galaxy cluster CHIPS1911+4455. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team. In 2012, MIT astronomer…

The last time Stephen Hawking was ever uncertain about his fame was before a lecture in Cambridge, in the winter of 1988. Even then, really, he should have been in no doubt. In previous years, he’d been profiled by Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine, and the BBC…

Kelvin Long explores the Advanced Space Propulsion Landscape and goes from all of the concepts from different energy drives (chemical to antimatter), beam concepts, space drives and time drives. Kelvin has worked on various fusion propulsion, laser sails and evaporating black hole drives. Kelvin is also looking at hybridized concepts…

NASA When we think about objects in space, like galaxies and black holes, our only frame of reference are the images we’ve seen, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and similar instruments. Now, thanks to NASA’s new data sonification series, we can translate data signals of these objects into audio.…

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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. David Blair, Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, OzGrav, University of Western Australia In 2017, astronomers witnessed the birth of a black hole for the first time. Gravitational wave…