Astrophysics (Page 4)

Latest in Astrophysics

The European Southern Observatory published a video that shows what it would be like to leave Earth, plunge into M87, and arrive at its central black hole.

Amazing Video Zooms All the Way From Earth to First Photographed Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A new image, released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, shows the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy in polarized light.

Astronomers Release Stunning New Image of Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists dropped a spherical telescope into Lake Baikal, where they hope it will spot subatomic neutrinos zipping by as they pass through the Earth.

Scientists Dump Telescope Into the World’s Deepest Lake to Hunt for Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of finding one big black hole at the center of a cluster of 250,000 stars, a pair of astronomers found evidence of a school of smaller black holes.

Astronomers Find Five Dozen Baby Black Holes in Distant Psychotic Chaos Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that black holes made of dark matter might be lurking inside neutron stars and eating them from the inside.

Black Holes May Devour Stars From the Inside, Like Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just released a map that shows over 25,000 different supermassive black holes in a tiny portion of the night sky.

Behold This Sky Map of 25,000 Supermassive Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Using a new AI algorithm, scientists identified over 1,200 gravitational lenses, potentially helping them find and understand dark matter.

Astronomers Find Over 1,200 Dark Matter Hot Spots

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists propose that "stupendously large" black holes between the size of a solar system and an entire galaxy could be hiding throughout the universe.

New Paper Says Black Holes Could Be as Large as an Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, high-energy X-ray emissions around a group of neutron stars may be caused by axions, one of the top candidates for dark matter.

Distant Neutron Stars May Offer Clue About the Truth of Dark Matter

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astronomers have detected a violent eruption of light emanating from a galaxy that repeats itself every 114 Earth days.

A Black Hole Bites a Chunk Out of This Star Every 114 Days

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, we could theoretically extract energy from the enormous amounts of emissions emanating from black holes.

Physicists Outline Plan to Harvest Energy From Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent study, an international group of scientists argue that dark matter doesn't exist. It's simply our limited scientific understanding of gravity.

New Study Claims Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre theory claims that dark matter might be made of tiny primordial black holes, which themselves might contain other universes.

Scientists Claim Black Holes Are Made of Collapsed Universes

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have spotted a distant galaxy without its accompanying supermassive black hole — despite its enormous suspected mass.

A Supermassive Black Hole Is Missing, NASA Says

By Victor Tangermann

After a citizen scientist saw what looked like beams of darkness coming out of a black hole, scientists think it's similar to light piercing through clouds.

Hubble Glimpses Huge “Dark Rays” Streaming Out of Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Astrophysicist Janna Levin makes getting gobbled up by a black hole sound almost beautiful, up until the point that it isn't.

This Physicist’s Description of Falling Into a Black Hole is Surprisingly Poetic

By Dan Robitzski

New Theory: Dark Matter Was Created by “Boiling” Bubbles of Plasma

New Theory: Dark Matter Was Created by “Boiling” Bubbles of Plasma

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning extremely slowly compared to others.

Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole Seems to Be Chilling Out for Some Reason

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found an unusual, ancient supermassive black hole that threatens our understanding of the history of the universe.

Scientists Found an Ultra-Rare Black Hole From Almost 12 Billion Years Ago

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are preparing to use an ultra-precise atomic clock to hunt oscillations of dark matter several orders of magnitude smaller than ever before.

Ultra-Precise Atomic Clocks May Be Able to Detect Oscillations of Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

The galaxy Dragonfly 44, which scientists said had a baffling 10,000-to-one ratio of dark matter to visible matter, may not be so unique after all.

Scientists: That “99.9% Dark Matter” Galaxy Is Actually Perfectly Normal

By Dan Robitzski

Astar about 215 million light-years from Earth got too close to a black hole, and got devoured in a process that scientists call "spaghettification."

Watch a Black Hole Suck Down an Entire Star Like a Spaghetti Noodle

By Jon Christian

$Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explores the implications of new research about a hypothetical type of black hole that would contain a "fractal universe."$

Researchers: Some Black Holes May Contain a “Fractal Universe”

By Jon Christian

Scientists found that black holes give off a complex series of "chirps" in the form of gravitational waves after they merge.

Black Holes “Chirp” Repeatedly When They Merge

By Dan Robitzski

Sir Roger Penrose, who just won a Nobel Prize for discovering black holes, says that our universe was neither the first to exist, nor will it be the last.

Physicist: There Were Other Universes Before the Big Bang

By Dan Robitzski

American astronomer Andrea Ghez just won this year's Nobel prize in physics for her groundbreaking work on black holes, only the fourth woman to do so.

Nobel Prize Winner on Falling Into a Black Hole: “I Would Not Want To”

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found a supermassive black hole slowly feasting on galaxies trapped nearby when the universe was still under a billion years old.

Astronomers Spot Galaxies “Trapped” by Giant Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Russian scientists suspects supermassive black holes may be traversible wormholes, and they have a plan to actually find out.

Physicists: Supermassive Black Holes May Actually Be Wormholes

By Dan Robitzski

An outrageously strange paper claims, among other things, that there's a black hole at the center of the Earth. Sometthing's fishy.

Strange Research Paper Claims There’s a Black Hole at the Center of the Earth

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists have turned the first ever image of a black hole released last year into a short animation by digging through their archives.

Astrophysicists Release Landmark “Movie” of Wobbling Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, dark matter may be an even bigger mystery than we initially thought. The theoretical maps aren't lining up with observations.

Dark Matter’s Effect Is 10x What It Should Be, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that GEODEs, or imitation black holes full of dark energy, could be driving the universe's ongoing expansion.

Physicists: Fake Black Holes Could Be Pulling the Universe Apart

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have spotted what they claim to be the most massive collision of two black holes ever, creating a black hole of about 150 solar masses.

Astronomers Claim to Have Spotted the Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists figured out how new exoplanets could form around a black hole. They've named the theoretical worlds "blanets."

Astronomers Say That Planets Orbiting Black Holes Are Called “Blanets”

By Dan Robitzski

This Galaxy Cluster Is Spewing a Surplus of Stars Because of a Lazy Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Studying the rings of photons swirling around the black hole Pōwehi can help scientists understand the history of the universe.

We May Be Able to Extract “Movies” of the Universe From Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a working model for a bizarre state of matter called "strange metals," and discovered that they behave similar to black holes.

Cornell Scientists Say “Strange Metals” Are Similar to Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

This Black Hole Just Glitched

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre celestial object too big to be a neutron star but too small for a black hole could undo the rules astrophysicsts use to understand the universe.

Scientists Are Baffled By a Bizarre Black Hole-Like Object

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers found an incredibly rare explosion that they think was caused by two black holes merging while orbiting an even larger one.

When Two Black Holes Collided, NASA Spotted Something Very Surprising

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists recently tested and validated the 50-year-old theory that dangling objects into a black hole then releasing them would generate power.

You Could Generate Power by Dangling Crap Into a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Jim Peebles, who first theorized about dark matter, argues in a new essay that there's still a lot of work to be done in proving his ideas.

The Guy Who Invented Dark Matter Has Some Doubts

By Dan Robitzski

To better understand how black holes form and what gravitational waves they give off, physicists are repeatedly simulating extremely violent supernovae.

Scientists Are Killing Off Virtual Stars to Study Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

An astrophysicist thinks that the mysterious Planet Nine may really be a six centimeter-wide black hole. And he has a plan to finally find it.

A Black Hole May Be Orbiting Our Sun. This Guy Wants to Find It.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) claim to have spotted the closest black hole to Earth ever discovered.

Astronomers Find Nearest Black Hole to Earth, and It’s Strange

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found a rare, near-death experience play out in space where a black hole devoured the outer layers of a star but left the core intact.

Black Hole Devours Outside of Star, Leaves Core Behind

By Dan Robitzski

After nearly 30 years of research, astronomers found that a star orbiting a black hole does so in a rosette shape, supporting Einstein's general relativity.

A Star Is Circling a Black Hole and Its Orbit Is Absolutely Nuts

By Dan Robitzski

A research team failed to find a widely-accepted dark matter particle candidate in the Milky Way galaxy, causing a stir among disagreeing astrophysicists.

Shocking Research Threatens Our Understanding of Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

After the first-ever image of a black hole, we now have the ultimate follow-up: a video of a supermassive black hole spewing out jets of particles.

Scientists Release Incredible Video of Black Hole Spewing Matter

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have found a way to predict an intricate internal structure within black hole images caused by gravitational light bending.

Researchers Find Captivating New Details In Image of Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers spotted a 13 billion year-old blazar given off by the most ancient supermassive black hole to be discovered yet.

Astronomers: Here’s This Incredibly Ancient Supermassive Black Hole We Found

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered the biggest ever explosion observed in the universe since the Big Bang.

Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion Since the Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made an unexpected discovery, spotting a black hole emitting a massive cloud of X-rays some 30,000 light years away.

NASA Probe Exploring Asteroid Accidentally Snaps Black Hole Image

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists think they've figured out how to build quantum circuits that behave like entangled black holes, which would be able to teleport information.

Scientists Are Building a Quantum Teleporter Based on Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

A flair in outer space may be a sign of a phenomenon first proposed in 2017: two massive black holes, wrapping around each other on a collision course.

Flaring Object in Space May Be Two Supermassive Black Holes Colliding

Researchers from UCLA have identified six shape-shifting G objects orbiting the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Strange Shape-Shifting Objects Found Near Milky Way’s Black Hole

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that the Big Bang theory could be off: some assumptions about the early unvierse don't match the actual data.

Another Astronomer Says the Big Bang Might Not Have Happened

By Dan Robitzski

The Milky Way might be home to two black holes and not just one — and researchers have a plan for detecting Sagittarius A*'s "hidden friend."

Our Galaxy Might Have — Two! — Black Holes at Its Center

By Kristin Houser

Scientists thought they ruled out dark matter as the source of bizarre cosmic gamma rays coming from the core of the Milky Way. New evidence disagrees.

MIT: Dark Matter At Our Galaxy’s Core May Be Blasting Gamma Rays

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have a new guess for what triggers white dwarf stars to blow up in supernovae: tiny black holes made of dark matter growing in their cores.

New Theory: Dark Matter Black Holes Are Detonating Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered 19 new galaxies that appear to be missing their dark matter. The discovery challenges our models of how galaxies form.

19 Newly Discovered Galaxies Appear to Be Missing Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have spotted a gigantic black hole 70 times the mass of the Sun in our galaxy — way bigger than expected.

Scientists: Ominous Black Hole Is Way Too Big to Exist

By Victor Tangermann

A study suggests that there could be thousands of giant exoplanets and planets that form around and orbit a supermassive black hole.

New Calculations: Black Holes Could Have Thousands of Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists believe they've spotted the turbulence allowing black holes to transfer heat to the gas at the core of their galaxy clusters.

Astronomers Catch Three Black Holes “Cooking” Their Galaxies

By Kristin Houser