MIT astronomers observe elusive stellar light surrounding ancient quasars ~space astronomy Article 1023 words, published May 6 2024 7 votes
Does light itself truly have an infinite lifetime? ~science physics.particle physics.quantum physics.astro Article 2648 words, published Apr 16 2024 10 votes
Astronomers unveil strong magnetic fields spiraling at the edge of Milky Way’s central black hole ~space astronomy Article 247 words 10 votes
Black hole ripples could help pin down expansion of universe ~space astronomy Article 891 words 6 votes
Scientists have found signs of a new kind of gravitational wave. It's really big. ~space Article 1217 words 17 votes
Black holes are accelerating the expansion of the Universe, say cosmologists ~space astronomy Article 957 words 9 votes
Netta Engelhardt discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole paradox ~space Article 1634 words 7 votes
How Andrea Ghez won the Nobel for an experiment nobody thought would work ~science Article 967 words 6 votes
LIGO/Virgo’s newest black hole merger defies mass expectations ~science astronomy physics.astro Article 709 words 5 votes
Scientists detect first-of-its-kind "intermediate-mass" black hole as a result of most massive merger ever observed ~space Article 1455 words 8 votes
Scientists just found the biggest neutron star (or smallest black hole) yet in a strange cosmic collision ~space astronomy Article 1077 words 5 votes
ESO instrument finds black hole 1000 lightyears from Earth ~space astronomy Article 1188 words 6 votes
Observations of a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way over almost thirty years confirm that it moves just as predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity ~space Article 1458 words 8 votes
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way was recently observed flaring to over seventy-five times its normal brightness in near-infrared ~space astronomy Article 1289 words 11 votes
Using machine learning and a whole lot of data from telescopes positioned around the world could test the theory of gravity in new ways ~space astronomy Article 2141 words 4 votes
Black hole picture captured for first time in space ‘breakthrough’ ~space astronomy Article 1433 words 63 votes
Astronomers discover eighty-three supermassive black holes in the early universe ~space astronomy Link 6 votes
The double life of black holes: Perfect black holes are versatile mathematical tools. Just don’t mistake them for the real thing ~space Article 771 words 3 votes
Physicists stimulate Hawking radiation from optical analogue of a black hole ~science physics astronomy Article 1390 words, published Jan 19 2019 6 votes
Sean Carroll's Mindscape Podcast #28: Roger Penrose on spacetime, consciousness, and the universe ~space Link 3 votes
Mathematicians disprove conjecture made to save black holes ~space astronomy Article 1246 words 13 votes
Newly released Gaia data: A speeding interstellar invader, the fastest-growing black hole, and more than 10,000 nearby white dwarfs. ~space astronomy satellites Article 763 words 3 votes
A star turned into a black hole before Hubble’s very eyes ~space astronomy Article 216 words, published May 25 2017 9 votes