A mysterious object swinging around the supermassive black hole in the center our galaxy has surprised astronomers by actually surviving…
While he was working on the film Interstellar, executive producer Kip Thorne was tasked with creating the black hole that…
That's the conclusion reached by one researcher from the University of North Carolina: black holes can't exist in our Universe --…
A new paper has been posted on the arxiv (a repository of research preprints) introducing the idea of a Planck star…
Three decades ago we were unaware that exoplanets circled other stars. We had just started talking about dark matter but…
[/caption] Recent reports of dark matter's demise may be greatly exaggerated, according to a new paper from researchers at the…
Astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope have been looking for evidence of suspected types of dark matter particles within…
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[/caption] Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have reported record-breaking wind speeds coming from a stellar-mass black hole. The "wind", a high-speed…
[/caption] Atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons. If you cram them together and heat them up you get…