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Black Holes
BLACK HOLES AND REVELATIONS Black holes are the source of a major quandary when it comes to our understanding of physics; either they can destroy information, which contradicts what we know about qua…
Scientists measure the magnetic field of the black hole binary V404 Cygni, revealing a significantly weaker magnetic field than previously thought. Black holes are famous for their muscle: an intense…
Black holes are weird: insanely dense objects that are crammed into such a small space they cause space-time to distort and the laws of physics to break down into a singularity . Fortunately, the Uni…
An illustration of how a black hole may appear. Researchers hope to present the first-ever image of a black hole later this winter. (Photo: NASA /Alain Riazuelo) At the center of our Milky Way galaxy…
Typically, one imagines a black hole as sort of a gigantic cosmic pit that sucks in everything around it. But physicists say a new kind of space structure is possible that allows some information to …
Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of a distant galaxy by what could be the awesome power of gravitational waves. Though there have been se…
The big bang poses a big question: if it was indeed the cataclysm that blasted our universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago, what sparked it? Three researchers at the Perimeter Institute for Th…
One new theory could put some long-standing physics mysteries to rest. A recent astrophysical model suggests that three different types of high-energy “cosmic messenger particles” could all originate…
Astronomers have released a new X-ray/radio composite image of the distant galaxy Pictor A, showing a huge jet of high-energy particles produced by a super-massive black hole. They were also able to…
Black holes are something everyone has heard about, but few actually know anything about. They are like giant invisible blenders lurking in the corners of deep space, sucking in unsuspecting stars an…
