Black Holes

Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math

The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers.

Quanta Magazine

Researchers Find Captivating New Details In Image of Black Hole

What they found could make the next black hole image way crisper.

Futurism

Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab

A proposal for building wormhole-connected black holes offers a way to probe the paradoxes of quantum information.

Quanta Magazine

Could a Habitable Planet Orbit a Black Hole?

Theorists say it’s technically possible, but it would be a weird place to live.

Science

Harvard, Vanderbilt Scientists Find “Stellar Budget” for Colliding Stars

The study found that roughly 14 percent of stars collide after becoming black holes.

The Harvard Crimson

Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes

Calculations involving a higher dimension are guiding physicists toward a misstep in Stephen Hawking’s legendary black hole analysis.

Quanta Magazine

LIGO and Virgo Probably Spotted the First Black Hole Swallowing Up a Neutron Star

Astronomers may have detected gravitational waves from a new type of event.

Science News

Loose Ends: String Theory and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Join leading minds in theoretical physics for a whirlwind ride through the twists and turns of string theory — its past, its future, and what it tells us about the search for the universe’s final theory.

World Science Festival

A Star Orbiting in the Extreme Gravity of a Black Hole Validates General Relativity

The star S0-2 gets so close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy that it can be used to test our fundamental understanding of gravity.

Smithsonian

Big Black Holes Found in the Smallest Galaxies

Tiny, dim “dwarf” galaxies have been found to hide gas-spewing black holes.

Quanta Magazine

Where Do Supermassive Black Holes Come From?

Born shortly after the Big Bang, these cosmic monsters have perplexed astronomers for years. A new study may shed light on their origins.

WIRED

Astronomers Discover a New Stage of Galaxy Evolution — the ‘Cold Quasar’

Allison Kirkpatrick isn’t sure yet if this is a stage most or all galaxies move through, or if only certain galaxies will ever appear as cold quasars.

D-brief, Discover

Big Black Holes Can Settle in the Outskirts of Small Galaxies

The first surveys of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies turn up surprises.

Science News

Can a Black Hole Be Destroyed?

Explore the theory of Hawking radiation, a process that could lead a black hole to gradually lose mass and evaporate.

TED-Ed

Gravitational Waves Hint at Detection of Black Hole Eating Star

LIGO and Virgo observatories have spotted ripples from what could be the first-ever detection of this long-sought event.

Nature

The M87 Black Hole Image Showed the Best Way to Measure Black Hole Masses

Its diameter suggests the black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of the sun.

Science News

The First Picture Of A Black Hole Opens A New Era Of Astrophysics

The supermassive beast lies in a galaxy called M87 more than 50 million light-years away.

Science News

Brian Greene on the First-Ever Image of a Black Hole From the Event Horizon Telescope

Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope announced a result that will change our understanding of the universe: the first-ever image of a black hole’s event horizon, the point at which light can no longer escape the black hole’s gravitational pull.

World Science Festival

At Long Last, a Glimpse of a Black Hole

This week scientists are expected to release images of the silhouette of this elusive and inscrutable astronomical object.

The New York Times

Living Near a Supermassive Black Hole

It would pose some dangers, of course — but it could also be fun!

Scientific American

Black Holes and Neutron Stars: A Merger in Space

With Duncan Brown, Vicky Kalogera, Frans Pretorius, Jocelyn Read, and moderator Mario Livio.

World Science Festival