Black Hole

Esports betting could be facing a huge tax hike in West Virginia. Image Credit: Riot Games For a long time, the running joke in the gaming world was that esports is just a massive, incredibly expensive black hole for cash. Publishers threw millions of dollars at giant stadiums, flashy trophy…

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid space telescope has spotted 31 previously unknown quasars dating to the universe's earliest chapter, including the two oldest ever found. The discoveries, described July 6 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics , more than double the number of known quasars from that primordial era…

Probing the dawn of the cosmos for clues to how the first galaxies and supermassive black holes formed is no easy feat By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron This artist’s concept shows a quasar, which is a galaxy with large quantities of material spiralling into its central supermassive black…

Scientists have found evidence that gravitational waves from a spectacular black hole collision carry signals from the very edge of the newly formed black hole. If confirmed by future observations, the discovery could provide an entirely new way to investigate what happens in the immediate vicinity of a black hole…

An illustration of a black hole at the heart of a dust cloud blasting out neutrinos. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black holes that fire high-energy cosmic "ghost particles" through…

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For decades, physicists have wrestled with one of the deepest puzzles in modern science: the "black hole information paradox." Now, a new theoretical study suggests a possible solution, one that could also shed light on another major mystery in physics, the origin of the mass of fundamental particles. The paradox…

Primordial black holes have remained one of astronomy's most intriguing ideas for decades. Now, researchers at the University of Miami believe a recent gravitational wave detection may bring scientists closer to confirming that these ancient objects are real, a breakthrough that could also help solve the enduring mystery of dark…

Andy Burnham has said he did not have “all of the details” about the £4.7 billion black hole in Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to raise defence spending until it was published. The prospective prime minister suggested he “wasn’t in all of the discussions” about the financial details, but insisted he…

We wanted six, but we got seven Image credit: Frictional Games To be truthful, these days it's generally surprising when a game isn't delayed these days, whether that be for a month, months, or even a full year. But perhaps in a year like this one, where a certain game…