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The bold question-askers at What If venture beyond the event horizon to speculate what could lie inside a black hole.
Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...
A powerful new technique is poised to revolutionize how astronomers observe black holes, by producing sharp, multicolored images that could reveal their dynamic evolution in real time.
For over a century, black holes have fascinated physicists with their mysterious nature and immense gravitational power. Now, a breakthrough from renowned physicist Michio Kaku brings us closer than ...
A controversial theory suggests the observable universe is the result of matter rebounding after the collapse of a black hole in another parent universe.
The Event Horizon black hole project performed more than 12 million computing jobs in the past three years.
The mystery radio pulses were picked up about 25 miles (40 kilometers) above Earth by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment. ANITA is a series of instruments that float over ...
Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...
Quirks & Quarks features our ever-popular listener question show, where we find experts to answer your questions. But here are ten mysteries that science has yet to answer.
T-symmetry offers insights into the nature of time, revealing how fundamental physical laws remain invariant under time ...
But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...
A new class of cosmic explosions — which emit more energy than any other brightness-changing event — may come from megastars getting shredded by supermassive black holes (illustrated). Adam ...