Exploding Primordial Black Holes Could ‘Rewrite the History of the Universe’
It’s been a fantastic week for Stephen Hawking’s black hole theories. Yesterday, LIGO confirmed the famed physicist’s prediction…
How were black holes discovered? A 240-year-old concept that was revealed to be true only a few years ago
Black holes weren’t always known by this name. In fact, the name wasn’t coined until 1967, and the…
Ripples from the Big Bang could transform our understanding of the universe — and we may be close to detecting them
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Astronomers Map Stellar ‘Polka Dots’ Using NASA’s TESS, Kepler
Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA…
When stars die, black holes possibly turn their remains into dark energy
On a quiet mountaintop in southern Arizona, 5,000 robotic eyes scan the sky every night, each locking onto…
What Came Before the Big Bang? New Study Says ‘Numerical Relativity’ Could Unlock Cosmology’s Biggest Mysteries
It is one of cosmology’s most perplexing questions: what happened before the Big Bang? Although the question has…
What if we’ve been thinking about dark matter all wrong, scientist wonders
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Hubble Examines Low Brightness, High Interest Galaxy
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image zooms in on the feathery spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 45,…
If nothing escapes a black hole, could one really swallow the entire universe?
In reality, a black hole’s gravitational influence is limited. Like any other massive object, its pull weakens with…