Black Holes
The Expanding Debris Cloud From the Kilonova Tells the Story of What Happens When Neutron Stars Collide
When two neutron stars collide, it creates a kilonova. The event causes both gravitational waves and emissions of electromagnetic energy.…
What’s Going on Inside a Black Hole? The Answers Could be Written on its Surface
Both quantum computing and machine learning have been touted as the next big computer revolution for a fair while now. …
We Finally Understand how Black Holes can Release Powerful Flares
While black holes might always be black, they do occasionally emit some intense bursts of light from just outside their…
The First Rogue Black Hole has Been Discovered, and it’s Only 5,000 Light-Years Away
Microlensing strikes again. Astronomers have been using the technique to detect everything from rogue planets to the most distant star…
What is Einstein’s Theory of Relativity?
More than a century after he first proposed it, Einstein's Theory of Relativity is still foundational to our understanding of…
A new Kind of Supernova has Been Discovered
A new supernova discovery shows that Wolf-Rayet stars explode after all.
M87’s Supermassive Black Hole is Spewing out a Spiraling jet of Material
Patterns in nature often occur in more than one place. Spirals, symmetry, and chaos all impact natural phenomena, from the…
NASA Launches a New X-ray Observatory
A new mission has launched to study some the most intriguing secrets of the universe. No, not THAT spacecraft (JWST…
NASA Simulation Shows What Happens When Stars Get Too Close to Black Holes
What happens to a star when it strays too close to a monster black hole? Astronomers have wondered why some…
A Black Hole has been Found Lurking Just Outside the Milky Way
Astronomers have found a smaller, stellar-mass black hole lurking in a nearby satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. The…