A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed up by a pulp-era sci-fi writer. Which, ...
Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...
A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.
Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its ...
Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...
Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...
Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...
Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star ...
An international collaboration of physicists including researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has made measurements to better understand how matter falls into black holes and how enormous ...
The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...
From Bruce Cain’s essay, appearing today at the NYU Democracy Project: At Caltech, I was asked to assist a group of distinguished physicists who were evaluating the technical feasibility of President ...
Solar for School remains one of the few policy bright spots for clean energy advocates following the state’s exit from a ...