A Mysterious Blob Near the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Might Finally Have an Explanation
New research from UCLA’s Galactic Center Group has found an explanation for the mysterious “blob” (X7) at the center of the galaxy.
Are Black Holes the Source of Dark Energy?
In a series of papers, an international team claims they’ve found the first observational evidence that supermassive black holes are responsible for cosmic expansion!
A Novel Propulsion System Would Hurl Hypervelocity Pellets at a Spacecraft to Speed it up
A new proposal for a pellet-beam spacecraft could enable interstellar missions and a Solar Gravitational Lens in a matter of decades.
Einstein's Predictions for Gravity Have Been Tested at the Largest Possible Scale
A new study by an international team indicates that either Einstein was wrong, or something else has been driving cosmic expansion from the beginning.
Did Supermassive Black Holes Collapse Directly out of Giant Clouds of gas? It Could Depend on Magnetic Fields
New research shows how the seeds of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) could have formed from gas clouds with amplified magnetic fields.
Shortly Before They Collided, two Black Holes Tangled Spacetime up Into Knots
An international team led from Cardiff University has confirmed that black hole binaries experience precession.
A Black Hole Burps out Material, Years After Feasting on a Star
When observing a black hole that devoured a star three years earlier, an international team of astronomers noticed it “burping” material out at half the speed of light!
This is it! Meet the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
The Event Horizon Telescope has just released the first images of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy!
NASA’s Roman Mission Might Tell Us if the Universe Will Tear Itself Apart in the Future
NASA’s Nancy Gracy Roman Space Telescope won’t launch until 2027, and it won’t start operating until some time after that. But that isn’t stopping excited scientists from dreaming about their new toy and all it will do. Who can blame them? A new study examines the Roman Space Telescope’s power in detail to see if …
Neutron Stars Could be the Best way to Measure Dark Energy
Neutron star collisions might be able to prove that dark energy is just an illusion.