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Black holes are as dangerous as they are distant, so scientists set out to simulate one in a lab. What happened next would ...

The Trump administration has released scant information on the migrants sent to Guantanamo Bay. Human rights lawyers are ...

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

Recent research using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Telescope reveals that black holes are not just passive consumers ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars." Astronomers have detected the largest black hole-launched jet ever ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

“If I just write down a model for inflation, it doesn’t produce any black holes at all,” Kinney says. “I have to really do some violence to that in order to get it to make black holes in ...

Black holes and their archaeology The results of the SDSS Survey of mass measurements of hundreds of black holes were a surprise, according to Fries. That's because the spin rates reveal something ...

But supermassive black holes are much larger, and this extreme mass makes them gravitationally powerful. Any object that falls past a black hole's point-of-no-return, called the event horizon ...

"Black holes really do sit at the frontier of human understanding." Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the ...

New insight into the relationship between dark matter and supermassive black holes.