A new mathematical model of a wormhole suggests that two black holes can be “cut and pasted.” Cut and paste is an official ...
Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red ...
The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...
Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...
If you've ever wondered what would actually happen if a microscopic black hole tunneled straight through your body, answers ...
Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...
Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...
A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed up by a pulp-era sci-fi writer. Which, ...
Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...
In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away. The progenitor black holes were 20 and 6 solar masses and the larger ...
Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...
The tidal forces produced by a tiny black hole would have an interesting effect on human bodies.