Infrared Echoes of a Black Hole Eating a Star\ NASA What happens if a star expands and eats a nearby black hole? Astronomers can approach…
Record number of new gravitational waves offers game-changing window into universe
Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other. Astronomers say 32 of the 35 new gravitational waves detected likely resulted from pairs of black holes…
A new study proposes that the expansion of the universe directly impacts the growth of black holes
Since the first observation of black hole mergers by the LIGO Laser Interferometer’s Gravitational Wave Observatory in 2015, astronomers have been repeatedly surprised by their…
Gold would form inside black holes
A new study by scientists at the German Heavy Ion Research Center (GSI) and other academic institutions in Belgium and Japan has concluded that black…
Kessler Syndrome and the space debris problem
Artist’s illustration of a debris-spawning event in Earth orbit that can cause the Kessler Syndrome. (Image credit: ESA) The Kessler Syndrome is a phenomenon in which…
Confirmed: the event horizon of a black hole does not shrink
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking proposed in 1971 that the boundary of black holes, known as the event horizon, never shrinks over time. Now, 50 years…
They manage, for the first time, to observe light ‘behind’ a black hole
While observing the powerful X-ray emissions launched into space by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away, Stanford…
Discovery of infrared rays
The discoverer of infrared rays was Sir Frederick William Herschel born in Hanover, Germany 1738.He was well known both as a musician and as an…
Scientists detect a ‘tsunami’ of gravitational waves
Two black holes merge to become one. Credit: NASA A team of international scientists, including researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), have unveiled the…
Mars, the red planet
Mars owes its name to the god of war in Roman mythology (Ares, according to the Greeks), son of the gods Jupiter and Juno (or…