Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...
Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...
Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...
teetering on the black hole’s edge without falling in. To cause the fluctuations that astronomers observed, the orbiting mass would be expected to generate ripples in space-time, called ...
"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...
PBS Space Time is available to stream on pbs.org ... non-shining bodies like brown dwarfs or neutron stars or even black holes. But as we ruled out most of the possible mass ranges for ...
A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...