For decades, scientists have wrestled with a complex mystery of physics: can a huge amount of energy, theoretically generated by turning a black hole, ever be applied by a human hand? If the societies of the future were somehow able to contain this magnificent feat, the power supply of distant …
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For a while, physicists have been searching for ancient black holes, foreign objects that could form at the beginning of the universe and stimulate the entire range of Shenanigan in the universe. Physicists from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Kavali Institute for Physics and Mathematics in Japan …
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The universe is full of galaxy clusters, but Able 2261 is in its own class. In the galaxy in the center of the cluster, where the largest supermassive black hole in the universe should be, astronomers have not been able to locate such an object. And the new discovery only …
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It appeared in 1973, mostly nowhere: a hole in the sea ice off the coast of Antarctica. But this was no ordinary hole. It was big enough to swallow California. Remained in mysterious opening position for the following three winters. It then appeared to have largely disappeared before re-filling in …
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Five years ago, humanity still had to find gravitational waves. Now, the observations are moving at an astonishing pace. Over a six-month period last year, the LIGO-Virgin collaboration detected an average of 1.5 gravitational wave events per week. From 1 April to 1 October 2019, upgraded LIGOs and virgin interferometers …
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