Tagged: black holes

A NEW study has claimed black holes could be “back doors” to other regions of the universe . However, scientists say it is unlikely anyone passing through one of the gateways would survive. If they did pass through, they would be “spaghettified” – which means being stretched out like a strand...

A giant star near the center of our galaxy hints, once again, that Albert Einstein was correct about gravity. A group of astronomers in Germany and the Czech Republic observed three stars in a cluster near the supermassive black hole at the center of the...

Astronomers have spotted a mystery object that they say could be a black hole or a neutron star. Both black holes and neutron stars are the remains of dead stars. “When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind...

Close encounters with medium-size black holes can reanimate dead stars, if only momentarily, a new study suggests. A team of astronomers performed computer simulations to determine what happens when a burned-out stellar corpse known as a white dwarf passes close to an intermediate-mass black hole...

There’s a lot we still don’t know about black holes, but these light-gobbling behemoths would be even more mysterious if Stephen Hawking hadn’t plumbed their inky depths. For starters, the famed cosmologist, who died yesterday (March 14) at the age of 76, helped give more...

Astronomers studying the motions of galaxies and the character of the cosmic microwave background radiation came to realize in the last century that most of the matter in the universe was not visible. About 84% of the matter in the cosmos is dark matter, much...

There is no doubt anymore – they are out there and they are huge! For the first time ever, astronomers can confirm the existence of orbiting supermassive black holes. Having the mass of several billion the mass of our Sun, both of these black holes...

New research by Harvard astronomers Peter Williams and Edo Berger shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant galaxy’s core and was unassociated with the fast radio burst. “Part of the scientific process is investigating findings to see...

by Nina Beety, Global Research What would you have done to stop catastrophic events if you knew in advance what you know now. We have the moral obligation to take action in every way we can. The future is in our hands. The stakes are...

In modern science, the prevailing opinion supposes that whatever falls into a black hole disappears forever and breaks apart into the component parts. However, a new theory states that black holes do not destroy the matter but rather are a kind of exit gate which...