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

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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

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

A team of astronomers from Harvard University and the Black Hole Initiative developed a new method to hunt for evidence of Planet Nine.

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Astronomers Want to Figure Out What the Hell Planet Nine Is Once and For All

By Victor Tangermann

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

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.

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Black Hole Devours Outside of Star, Leaves Core Behind

By Dan Robitzski

A pairing of orbiting black holes gave off gravitational waves that resonate at a perfect fifth, which makes them the perfect harmony to an Elvis song.

Signal From Deep Space Perfectly Harmonizes With Elvis Song

By Dan Robitzski

New data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope details the "quasar tsunami," a cosmic storm of such terrifying size that it can tear apart an entire galaxy.

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Behold the “Quasar Tsunami,” Which Can Kill an Entire Galaxy

By Jon Christian

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

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Researchers Find Captivating New Details In Image of Black Hole

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

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.

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New Theory: Dark Matter Black Holes Are Detonating Stars

By Dan Robitzski

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

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New Calculations: Black Holes Could Have Thousands of Planets

By Dan Robitzski

New research has determined that nearly extreme black holes can have "hair" — but the defining characteristic doesn't last long.

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Physicists Finally Find a Way to Tell Certain Black Holes Apart

By Kristin Houser

A group of scientists are suggesting that supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies are surrounded by, and devour, much smaller "baby black holes."

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Baby Black Holes May be Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

NASA found a weak supermassive black hole in the Phoenix Cluster billions of light years away that is not strong enough to stop stars from forming.

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NASA Finds Supermassive Black Hole Birthing Stars at “Furious Rate”

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers claim to have spotted a tiny black hole that's only 20 kilometers across. That's tiny.

Astronomers Spot Black Hole the Size of Manhattan

By Victor Tangermann

In a new study, a team of astronomers from Ohio State University claim to have discovered an entirely new and previously missing class of black holes.

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Scientists Discover New Class of Tiny Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

In a paper, NASA scientist Jeremy Schnittman argues that it's pretty unlikely planets that orbit black holes could harbor life.

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NASA Scientist Ponders Life on Planets Orbiting Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

New calculations of the universe's outward expansion only make sense if it turns out that some black holes are actually giant blobs of dark energy.

Some Black Holes May Actually Be Blobs of Dark Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of NASA scientists have caught three supermassive black holes in the act of merging together a measly one billion light-years away from Earth.

Three Supermassive Black Holes Are About to Collide

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers Researchers are suggesting that in the orbit of the Milky Way's sun may be a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.are suggesting that the Sun's orbit might have captured a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.

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Astrophysicists: There May Be Black Holes Orbiting Our Sun

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists discovered that the black hole at the center of the Milky Away appears to be unusually hungry based on how brightly it's glowing.

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Uh Oh: The Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Is “Getting Hungrier”

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists is preparing to release a world first: video footage of an enormous black hole devouring vast clouds of gas.

Astronomers Say They’ll Soon Release First Video of a Black Hole

By Jon Christian

A team of astrophycisists came up with a way to construct a traversable wormhole that could fling objects or astronauts to another end of the universe.

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Physicists Publish Instructions For DIY Wormhole

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have discovered 39 massive ancient galaxies — and they could inform our understanding of everything from black holes to dark matter.

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Astronomers Discover an Entire Population of Ancient Galaxies

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers Just Spotted One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever

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Astronomers Just Spotted One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever

By Victor Tangermann

Some galaxies called blue nuggets are unusually tiny but house gargantuan black holes. Astronomers finally think they know why.

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Scientists Unraveled Why Some Tiny Galaxies Have Huge Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Extremely bright objects that first appeared close to the Big Bang — theoretical objects called "dark stars" — could have seeded supermassive black holes.

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These Bizarre Objects May Have “Seeded” Supermassive Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers discovered two distant supermassive black holes on a crash course with each other. They hope to learn whether such mergers are possible.

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Devastating Crash Course

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just awarded SpaceX with a launch services contract to launch NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission in 2021.

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SpaceX Scores NASA Contract to Launch Black Hole Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

A new model reveals that black holes could take in a steady stream of antimatter particles that gradually chip away until the black hole dissipates.

New Research Reveals That Black Holes Can Die

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers has produced the most detailed black hole simulations ever — and then used them to solve a 40+ year mystery.

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Scientists Produce Most Precise Black Hole Simulations Ever

By Kristin Houser

Scientists at LIGO just observed the gravitational waves given off by a black hole as it consumed a neutron star for the first time.

Scientists Just Detected a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of researchers says it's found 83 new supermassive black holes at extreme end of the visible universe.

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Astronomers Just Found 83 Giant Black Holes at Universe’s Edge

By Jon Christian

A new paper suggests that we could spot an alien civilization by looking for signs of starships powered by the radiation thrown off by small black hole.

New SETI Plan: Detect Alien Starships Powered by Black Holes

By Jon Christian

Using the Netherlands-based Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), astronomers have added another 300,000 galaxies to our map of the universe.

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Scientists Just Discovered 300,000 New Galaxies

By Kristin Houser

A philosopher wanted to unify the various field-specific definitions physicists have for black holes. He decided that the variety was good for science.

A Philosopher Is Trying to Figure out What Black Holes Really Are

By Dan Robitzski

Strange new observations from distant quasars suggest that dark energy could be getting stronger as the universe gets older.

Bizarre New Data Suggests That Dark Energy Is Getting Stronger

By Jon Christian

New research suggests that supermassive black holes formed in halos of dark matter that serve as "gravitational glue" for galaxies.

New Theory: Vast, Ancient Black Holes Formed Because of Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

Astrophysicists just uncovered why some dying stars' supernovae appear to lack high-energy gamma ray bursts. A protective cocoon has been blocking them.

Protective “Cocoons” Could Block Deadly Stellar Gamma-Ray Bursts

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers spotted an unusual black hole floating through the galaxy. Roughly the size of Jupiter, it's in between the two types of typical black holes.

A Jupiter-Sized Black Hole is Floating Around The Milky Way

By Dan Robitzski

New research sheds light on how supermassive black holes, like the one at the center of the Milky Way, get so massive. It takes more than just eating stars.

Astronomers Figured out How Supermassive Black Holes Get so Big

By Dan Robitzski

What happened next was weird, even by the standards of super-dense celestial objects from which not even light can escape: the black hole started to shrink.

A Black Hole Inhaled a Star. Then It Started to Shrink

By Jon Christian

For the first time, astronomers observed the birth of a new, ultra-dense stellar corpse that could be either a black hole or a neutron star.

Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Birth of a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers say they've discovered the brightest quasar ever observed in the early universe, which shines with the power of 600 trillion Suns.

Newly Spotted Quasar Is 600 Trillion Times Brighter Than the Sun

By Jon Christian

Research suggests that it might be possible to safely approach a black hole as long as its big enough and spinning rapidly.

Physicist: Black Holes Could be Portals for Hyperspace Travel

By Dan Robitzski

An upcoming galactic collision could wake the Milky Way's black hole and fling our solar system into intergalactic space, according to new research.

Galactic Collision Could Fling Our Solar System Into Intergalactic Space

By Jon Christian

Here’s How You Could Survive Being Sucked Into a Black Hole

Here’s How You Could Survive Being Sucked Into a Black Hole

Parallel Universes Could Solve One of the Biggest Mysteries in Physics

Parallel Universes Could Solve One of the Biggest Mysteries in Physics

What if Our Universe is a Hologram?

What if Our Universe is a Hologram?

By Chelsea Gohd

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New Gravitational Wave Research May Finally Reveal Mysterious “Dark Matter”

The Nobel Prize Was Just Awarded for the Discovery Of “Ripples” in Spacetime

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The Nobel Prize Was Just Awarded for the Discovery Of “Ripples” in Spacetime

Scientists Detect New Gravitational Waves from a Black Hole Collision

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Scientists Detect New Gravitational Waves from a Black Hole Collision

Researchers Have a Theory on How the Lights Went On After the Big Bang

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Researchers Have a Theory on How the Lights Went On After the Big Bang

Black Holes Outside Our Galaxy Work Differently From Ours

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Black Holes Outside Our Galaxy Work Differently From Ours

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A Groundbreaking Discovery Just Verified the Existence of Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes

By Patrick Caughill

New Research Shows That a “Naked Singularity” Could Exist in Physics

New Research Shows That a “Naked Singularity” Could Exist in Physics

By Patrick Caughill

World-Renowned Physicist Explains How Our Universe Will End

World-Renowned Physicist Explains How Our Universe Will End

Here’s What We’d Need to Transform Wormholes Into Intergalactic Shortcuts

Here’s What We’d Need to Transform Wormholes Into Intergalactic Shortcuts

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Scientists May Finally Have a Way to Detect the Strangest Objects in Physics

These Supermassive Black Holes Have Completely Stumped Scientists

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These Supermassive Black Holes Have Completely Stumped Scientists

By Patrick Caughill

Here’s Everything You Wanted to Know About the Cosmos

Here’s Everything You Wanted to Know About the Cosmos

By Jolene Creighton

Astronomers Just Found A Rogue Black Hole Careening Through Its Galaxy

Astronomers Just Found A Rogue Black Hole Careening Through Its Galaxy