black holes

Supermassive Black Holes May Be Pulling The Atmosphere Off Planets And Making Them Uninhabitable 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 15, 2017
Scientists have discovered black holes may be doing more damage to their surroundings than originally thought.

By David Aragorn
Black holes swallow stars whole according to new study 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 14, 2017
Observations suggest that black holes swallow doomed stars whole, increasing the mystery surrounding these celestial monsters

By David Aragorn
After LIGO detects a third black hole collision, gravitational wave astronomy is here to stay 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 13, 2017
Scientists on the lookout for subtle disturbances in the fabric of space-time have detected the signal from a cataclysmic collision between two black holes that lie some 3 billion light-years away, much farther two previous discoveries.

By David Aragorn
Do Stars Vanish Into a Black Hole or Crash Against a Surface? A New Test Answers 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 8, 2017
Some have cast doubt about the existence of black hole event horizons from which nothing, not even light, can escape the gravitational pull.

By David Aragorn
Black holes crash together and make waves 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 7, 2017
Three billion years ago, in a third of a second, two black holes crashed into each other and merged into a single entity, converting two solar masses into energy that shook the fabric of spacetime, sending gravitational ripples across the universe that were detected on Earth last January, researchers announced Thursday.

By David Aragorn
LIGO’s third detection hints at how black hole binaries are born 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 3, 2017
Three’s a party. The LIGO collaboration has made its third observation of gravitational waves emanating from a pair of merging black holes – giving us more insight into how these pairs form and building up our catalogue of them.

By David Aragorn
Naked singularity might evade cosmic censor 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 24, 2017
Spacetime singularities might exist unhidden in strangely curved universes

By David Aragorn
What Does a Black Hole Really Look Like?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 20, 2017
39-year-old drawing hints at what the Event Horizon Telescope may have just captured: the true shape of a black hole

By David Aragorn
The Mystery of How Black Holes Collide and Merge Is Beginning to Unravel 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2017
A new study pursues a kind of “paleontology” for gravitational waves in an attempt to explain how and why black holes collide and merge.

By David Aragorn
Scientists make progress on unravelling the puzzle of merging black holes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2017
Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have made progress in understanding a key mystery of gravitational-wave astrophysics: how two black holes can come together and merge.

By David Aragorn