black holes
Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe
Exotic stars could be powered by dark matter remotevfx/Getty Images We may have seen the first hints of the existence ...
Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the biggest stars ever seen
An artist's impression of Population III stars 100 million years after the Big Bang. NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Space Engine/M. Period The ...
Brightest black hole flare ever caused by huge star being ripped apart
A supermassive black hole in the process of destroying a huge star Caltech/R. Painful (IPAC) Astronomers have spotted the brightest ...
Lumpy ‘caterpillar wormholes’ may connect entangled black holes
Sometimes wormholes are lumpy Shutterstock/Champfay What happens if two black holes are connected by an unbreakable quantum bond? Calculations show ...
A tiny nearby galaxy is home to a shockingly enormous black hole
It may be hard to believe, but at the center of this image is Segue 1, a very faint dwarf ...
A black hole fell into a star – then ate its way out again
This orange dot is a gamma-ray burst, which appears to be a sign of an unusual event. IT/A. Levan, A. ...
Astronomers captured an incredible view of M87’s black hole jet
A jet escaping from the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy Jan Roeder; Macek Wielgus et al. ...
Is the universe really one big black hole?
Could this be an illustration of the entire universe? Arlum/Alamy The following is an excerpt from our newsletter, Lost in ...
First photo of a black hole resembles ‘skinny’ doughnut
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Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?
Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? ...
