Astronomy
The Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Recorded Rattled Earth’s Atmosphere
The death of a massive star far across the universe affected lightning on our planet and could teach us about the Milky Way
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The First Milky Way Black Hole Image Lets Scientists Test Physics
The first image of the behemoth at the center of our galaxy opens new avenues for understanding the nature of black holes
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Black Hole Discovery Helps to Explain Quantum Nature of the Cosmos
New insights from black hole research may elucidate the cosmological event horizon
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How the Inside of a Black Hole Is Secretly on the Outside
Mysterious “islands” help to explain what happens to information that falls into a black hole
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How Physicists Cracked a Black Hole Paradox
Quantum entanglement and spacetime wormholes helped to solve a long-standing quandary
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Hawking, a Paradox and a Black Hole Mystery, Solved?
We do not have a theory to tell us everything about how a black hole works, but new research is shedding a least some light on one of their many mysteries.
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What Is the Black Hole Information Paradox? A Primer
Black holes, wormholes, entanglement, Einstein, mysterious islands and new science that sees how the inside of a black hole is secretly on the outside.
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Black Hole Mysteries Solved
Recent theoretical and observational results have revealed new secrets about these shadowy objects, with deep implications for more than just black holes themselves
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New Solutions to Black Holes, Snake Phobia and Forecasting Atmospheric Rivers
These fun stories show progress from the scale of quantum effects to that of snakes and from Earth to the edge of the universe
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How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy’s Black Hole
It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.
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The Black Hole in the Middle of our Galaxy Looks like This
It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.
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The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way’s Heart Has Been Revealed
The historic image of Sagittarius A* is the culmination of a decades-long astronomical quest—and a crucial step toward a new understanding of black holes, gravity and spacetime...
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Swarms of Black Holes at the Milky Way’s Heart? Maybe Not
Revisiting a controversial claim, astronomers are laying bare deep uncertainties about our understanding of galactic centers
Astronomy
Record-Breaking Supernova Is Part of a New Class of Objects
A recently spotted bright light in the sky is improving astronomers’ understanding of stellar death
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Major African Radio Telescope Will Help to Image Black Holes
The $25-million facility in Namibia will be the continent’s first millimeter-range astronomical observatory
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Astronomers Find First Ever Rogue Black Hole Adrift in the Milky Way
Weighing in at seven times the mass of our sun, the dark object is by far the best-yet candidate for a free-floating stellar-mass black hole
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Could Echoes from Colliding Black Holes Prove Stephen Hawking’s Greatest Prediction?
Subtle signals from black hole mergers might confirm the existence of “Hawking radiation”—and gravitational-wave detectors may have already seen them
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Singularities Can Exist Outside Black Holes—in Other Universes
Recent work has shown how “naked singularities” might defy the cosmic censorship conjecture
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Astronomers Find an Unexpected Bumper Crop of Black Holes
In trying to explain the spectacular star trails of the star cluster Palomar 5, astronomers stumbled on a very large trove of black holes.
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Black Holes, Quantum Entanglement and the No-Go Theorem
New research shows that there are problems even quantum computers might never be able to solve
