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In 1974, Stephen Hawking put forward an intriguing idea: Using the principles of quantum physics, he predicted that even though nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event horizon ...

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare pair of supermassive black holes exhibiting an unprecedented feeding pattern. The black holes, located a billion light-years away, are consuming a massive gas ...

The galaxy filling the frame in this NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month is NGC 2566, a spiral ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is associated with wanton destruction, but a recent discovery throws that assumption into question. A team of international ...

Like most, a few continuity errors, farfetched scenarios and plot holes plague the film ... and perfect throughout filming. There is a black and white film that is played during Home Alone ...

The black hole is so enormous that it makes up roughly 40% of the total mass of its host galaxy: in comparison, most black holes in the local universe are roughly 0.1% of their host galaxy mass.

An artist's impression of a black hole in the early universe. Illustration: Jiarong Gu Gas: It’s what’s for dinner. At least that was the case for a black hole in the early universe ...

A new hypothesis suggests quite a peculiar source of this energy: black holes. The idea is that black holes are “cosmologically coupled” – this means that as the universe expands they get ...