Tag: black holes, Deep Space, Physics, Space
Gravitational wave detector now squeezes light to find more black holes
Gravitational wave observatories, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), are exercises in extreme...
JWST takes a jab at the mystery of the universe’s expansion rate
The universe is expanding—but astronomers can’t agree how fast. And NASA’s superstar observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope,...
You saw the first image of a black hole. Now see it better with AI.
Astronomy sheds light on the far-off, intangible phenomena that shape our universe and everything outside it. Artificial intelligence sifts...
A massive detector in China will try to find a supernova before it happens
Trillions of particles from distant stars and galaxies are streaming through your body every second—you just can’t feel them. These...
Nature generates more data than the internet … for now
Is Earth primarily a planet of life, a world stewarded by the animals, plants, bacteria, and everything else that lives here? Or, is it a...
Super-thin ‘mirror membranes’ could lead the way to bigger space telescopes
It took years of design and engineering toil to successfully get the largest-ever telescope mirror into space. Now, the James Webb Space...
This supermassive black hole sucks big time
Black holes remain among the most enigmatic objects in the universe, but the past few years have seen astronomers develop techniques to...
31 award-winning astronomy photos: From fiery horizons to whimsical auroras
An unexpected and astonishing find located more than 2.5 million light-years from Earth took top honors at the Royal Observatory...
Alien civilizations could send us messages by 2029
Humans have used radio waves to communicate across Earth for more than 100 years. Those waves also leak out into space, a fingerprint of...
An Einstein-backed method could help us find smaller exoplanets than ever before
Since 1995 scientists have found more than 5,000 exoplanets—other worlds beyond our solar system. But while space researchers have gotten...
