Astronomers know that supermassive black holes (SMBH) can inhibit star formation. These behemoths, which seem … “How Supermassive Black Holes Stifle Star Formation In Neighbouring Galaxies”
The early Universe was a dramatically different environment than what we have today. The first … “Ancient Massive Stars Enriched Early Clusters and Birthed First Black Holes”
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I always say that one of the things that separates real science from pseudoscience is … “Are there Hidden Dimensions to the Universe? Part 1: Kaluza and Klein”
I always say that one of the things that separates real science from pseudoscience is … “Are there Hidden Dimensions to the Universe? Part 2: The Hierarchy Problem”
The Milky Way’s center might contain a dense core of dark matter and not a supermassive … “Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way’s heart”
An “impossible” ultra-high-energy neutrino – detected in 2023 – might have come from the explosion of … “Did we see a black hole explode? If so, it could explain a lot”
Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had … “JWST found a ‘dead’ galaxy that quit making stars billions of years ago”
In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein … “Einstein–Rosen bridges are not wormholes but quantum links between opposite directions of time”
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a global collaboration of radio observatories famous for capturing … “Event Horizon Telescope probes source of 3,000-light-year-long black hole jet”