#Black_Holes

Joshua Shavit

This is what it looks like when a black hole snacks on a star

While black holes and toddlers don't seem to have much in common, they are remarkably similar in one aspect: Both are messy eaters.

Joseph Shavit

This is what it looks like when a black hole snacks on a star

While black holes and toddlers don't seem to have much in common, they are remarkably similar in one aspect: Both are messy eaters.

Joseph Shavit

Advanced civilizations could be using Dyson spheres to collect energy from black holes

Black holes are more than just massive objects that swallow everything around them—they're also one of the universe's biggest energy sources

Joseph Shavit

First detection of light from behind a black hole proves Einstein right

Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away

Joseph Shavit

There may be realistic ways to create wormholes in space!

Nobody knew that the existence of a black hole could prove to be real someday. Wormholes, just like black holes, are a mathematical...

Joseph Shavit

Scientists detect gravitational waves for first time from black holes swallowing neutron stars

For the first time, scientists detected gravitational waves caused by mergers between black holes and neutron stars.