Black Hole

SERIESHidden StructureBy George MusserOctober 29, 2020In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information, which seems impossible by definition. The work appears to resolve a paradox that Stephen Hawking first described five decades ago. In a series of breakthrough papers, theoretical physicists have come…

Home News Science & Astronomy A diagram shows mergers of black holes and neutron stars observed by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. (Image: © LIGO Virgo Collaboration/Frank Elavsky/Aaron Geller/Northwestern) Scientists can now catch gravitational waves better than ever before. Although physicists only observed the first of these cosmic "chirps"…

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This story was produced in collaboration with InvestigateWest, a nonprofit newsroom in Seattle with a focus on the environment, public health, and government accountability It was a scorching August day at the Hoover Dam as three Trump administration officials gathered for a little celebration honoring pollution-free hydroelectricity. Inside the dam’s…

This wide-field view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy shows, in visible light, the vast array of stars contained within this small space. The stars closest to the center of the galaxy, known as S-stars, are orbiting SgrA*, a massive black hole. The orbits of these stars are…

2020-10-19 18:30:00by Jordan DevoreNew gameplay footage of the creature-absorbing action-RPG I haven't forgotten about Grime, and I hope you haven't either. Clover Bite's action-adventure RPG about a "humanoid black hole" who can absorb bizarre creatures continues to show great promise. In this narrated footage from director Yarden Weissbrot, we're shown…

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Jim Carrey used his new cartoon to widen his targets beyond President Trump and top Republicans in the U.S. Senate. In his new artwork, which he tweeted on Saturday, he took on John Kelly, the retired Marine general who served as Trump’s White House chief of staff until his abrupt…

This illustration depicts a star (in the foreground) experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole (in the background) during a ‘tidal disruption event’. In a new study, done with the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope and ESO’s New Technology Telescope, a team of astronomers found…

Roger Penrose has shared in the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution with models of Black Holes. Penrose has used the renewed attention to push his 30-year old concept of Hawking Points and cyclic universes. This theory challenges the theory of cosmic inflation. Above – CMB sky, marking 6…