Scientists discover what is hidden inside the heart of a black hole
The black hole’s gravity, which exists in three dimensions, mathematically connects to the particles dancing above it, which exist in 2D.
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Joseph Shavit
- Nov 22
Astrophysicists make major discovery in the search for life on other planets
An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf — the most common type of star in the universe — appears to have no atmosphere at all.
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 12
The earth-sun distance found to dramatically alter seasons
An unrecognized effect boosts or diminishes the Pacific cold tongue, likely impacting El Niño/La Niña events and North American weather
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 5
Harvard astrophysicists solve the mystery of cosmic inflation
The signal – known as the cosmic graviton background (CGB) – can be detected, although it will be a massive technical challenge.
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 2
Our universe has an antiuniverse twin that extends backwards in time before the big bang
Our universe could be the mirror image of an antimatter universe extending backwards in time before the Big Bang per physicists in Canada.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 29
Scientists discover what is hidden inside a black hole
Physicist Enrico Rinaldi, has used quantum computing and computer learning to describe what is believed to be the interior of a black hole.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 12
Astronomers at MIT find a 'cataclysmic' pair of stars with the shortest orbit yet
Two stars in a binary system 3,000 light years from Earth are orbiting each other so closely that one of the stars has burnt out.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 2
Our universe could be the mirror image of an antimatter universe extending backwards in time
Standard cosmological models tell us that the universe – space, time and mass/energy – exploded into existence some 14 billion years ago.
Joseph Shavit
- Sep 21
Saturn’s rings and tilt could be the product of an ancient, missing moon
Swirling around the planet’s equator, the rings of Saturn are a dead giveaway that the planet is spinning at a tilt.
Joseph Shavit
- Sep 7
Does outer space end or is it infinite? Scientists weigh in
If you could keep going out, as far as you wanted, would you just keep passing by galaxies forever? Are there an infinite number of galaxies
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 30
Astrophysicists discover what lurks inside a black hole
Scientists relied on the holographic principle, which suggests that the two existing theories – particles and gravity – are equivalent.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 16
Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores
In the last 25 years, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around stars in our galaxy, but more than 99% of them orbit small stars
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 10
Stars determine their own masses
Northwestern University launched STARFORGE, a project that produces the most realistic, highest-resolution 3D simulations of star formations
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 9
40 year old mystery regarding light and black holes finally solved
In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may curve around them several times.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 2
Our universe has an antimatter twin on the opposite side of the Big Bang
Our universe could be the mirror image of an antimatter universe extending backwards in time before the Big Bang.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 30
Scientists discover what lurks inside a black hole
The black hole’s gravity, which exists in three dimensions, mathematically connects to the particles dancing above it, which exist in 2D.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 26
This is why Jupiter doesn’t have rings like Saturn
To understand the reason Jupiter currently looks the way it does, Kane and his graduate student Zhexing Li ran a dynamic computer simulation
Joseph Shavit
- Jun 10
Student solves decades long mystery regarding light and black holes
In the vicinity of a black hole, space curves so much that light rays are deflected and may curve around them several times.
Joseph Shavit
- May 27
New findings shed light on the origin of our galaxy's supermassive black hole
Newly discovered black holes in dwarf galaxies shed light on the origin of our galaxy's central supermassive black hole.
Joseph Shavit
- May 23
Ghostly ‘mirror world’ key to solving a major cosmic puzzle
New research suggests an unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology – the Hubble constant.