Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ad 355 space flyers, the program completed 135 missions. Today, Atlantis is ...

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Simulation of two colliding supermassive black holes emitting gravitational waves that could be detected with this novel method. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data ...

Some suggest energy thrown off by the black hole likely heated or pushed away the gas that would have otherwise sparked star-making episodes. Independent experts praise this discovery for challenging ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information.

An illustration of two black holes about to merge into one. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The finding about LID-568's feeding frenzy was far from the last word on early supermassive black hole ...

What makes the discovery even more surprising is the orientation of the black hole and its dusty disk. Shweta Singh Updated : Dec 27, 2024, 08:57 PM IST NASA scientists have made an unexpected ...

and that's not even the strangest part. Buried in archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, researchers discovered something else very unusual about NGC 5084 ...