Eliminating singularities: Physicists describe the creation of black holes through pure gravity
Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as ...
These Black Holes Are So Ancient They Shouldn’t Even Exist
Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...
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Black holes vibe together in a cosmic love story for Valentine's Day written in the stars
"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." ...
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Black holes could 'bend it like Beckham' to reveal hidden asymmetries of the universe
By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...
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A new kind of hidden black hole may explain the mystery of dark energy
Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...
There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.
End to one of the greatest mysteries of the universe? Scientists discover what’s at the core of a black hole
From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...
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Supermassive black hole captured in an unexpected spin shift
New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...
What’s really inside a black hole? Quantum computing sheds new light
Researchers at the University of Michigan, led by Enrico Rinaldi, have discovered through quantum computing that black holes ...
NASA scientists find new supermassive black holes that may blow universe theory wide open
In NASA's latest survey, experts detected black holes hidden behind thick clouds of gas and dust and others that are not. Their study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, found that around 35% of ...