Christopher Nolan's 2014 sci-fi movie gets analyzed by a real astrophysicist, who sings the movie's praises despite occasional errors.

How does a black hole generate a magnetic field and how can it be measured and visualized? Alan CroftSeattle, Washington As ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals, more than doubling the entire catalog built across the previous decade. The ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples ...

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The lasers alone would cost around one trillion dollars and the technology to create a nanocraft does not yet exist.

A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host. Astronomers observed a relatively weak but restless jet blasting outward from ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

An artist's concept of a tidal disruption event (TDE), which happens when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole. The gravity of the black hole pulls material from the star and launches a ...

Black holes "are surely governed by some beautiful structures." The post Scientists Say Something Bizarre Is Hiding Inside ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...