Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed how supermassive black holes feed on gas clouds that come from other galaxies hundreds of thousands…
A New Model for Dark Matter
A team of researchers has just proposed a new candidate for dark matter: HYPER, or “Highly Interactive Particle Relics.” The phase transition in the early…
‘Rubble Pile’ Asteroids Are Nearly Impossible To Destroy
Australian-led research on an asteroid compared to a “giant space cushion” has provided insights into potentially saving Earth from a future impact. The experts studied…
What is gravitational singularity?
What is gravitational singularity? A gravitational singularity, spacetime singularity or simply singularity is a condition in which gravity is so intense that spacetime itself breaks…
Can humans create a micro black hole?
Humans can theoretically create a micro black hole, but doing so safely would be very difficult. The amount of energy required to create a black…
General Relativity Black holes
A black hole is a region of space within which matter generates a gravitational field so strong that no material particle, including light, can escape.…
Astronomers detect a radio signal from the most distant galaxy ever captured from Earth, 8.8 billion light years away
Mirar las estrellas es como viajar en el tiempo. Hoy retrocedemos a hace 8.800 millones de años. El Radiotelescopio gigante de ondas métricas en la…
Astronomers find a black hole that spins slower than expected and nobody knows why
Thanks to NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has made an unprecedented measurement of the spin of a black hole, one of the…
Astronomers reveal the most detailed radio image so far of the galactic plane of the Milky Way
Two large research programs in astronomy, called EMU and PEGASUS, have teamed up to solve one of the mysteries of our Milky Way: where is…
Billions of celestial objects captured by the survey of the Milky Way
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about exciting discoveries, scientific breakthroughs, and more. A new study of the…