Black Hole

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…

Families and lawyers of CECOT detainees have been kept in the dark Published March 17, 2026 2:51PM (EDT) People held in custody in a cell during a walk around El Salvador CECOT mega prison in the municipality of Tecoluca on January 30, 2026 in San Vicente, El Salvador. (Photo by…

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…