Astronomers exploring the faraway universe with the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s most powerful telescope, have found a class of galaxies…
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Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under…
Giant black holes in the centres of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby…
Physicists consider black holes one of the most mysterious objects that exist. Ironically, they’re also considered one of the simplest. For years, physicists…
Peering deep into the infancy of the universe, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently confirmed the discovery…
Sometimes astronomers come across objects in the sky that we can’t easily explain. In our new research, published in Science, we…
Black holes are dense astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Anything that crosses the…
As people, we are all shaped by the neighborhoods we grew up in, whether it was a bustling urban center…
Black holes could explain a mysterious form of energy that makes up most of the universe, according to astronomers. The existence…
Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don’t expect to…