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NASA has recently unveiled groundbreaking insights into black holes and their star-devouring habits, revealing how these cosmic giants actively consume nearby stars. Using advanced observational technology from missions like the…

NASA is on the verge of a new era in space exploration with the launch of its Probe Explorers program. Two groundbreaking missions—an Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite and a Far-Infrared…

A new theory suggests that black holes might actually be "frozen stars", ultra-compact objects that mimic the properties of black holes but lack singularities. Proposed by Ramy Brustein and his…

The XRISM space telescope has delivered its first groundbreaking observations, revealing new insights into supermassive black holes and supernova remnants.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have made a groundbreaking discovery, confirming the closest pair of supermassive black holes ever detected. These two cosmic giants, located in the...

Astronomers are chasing one of the most elusive mysteries in the cosmos: how supermassive black holes—the largest known black holes—merge into monstrous giants that can weigh billions of times more...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), known for capturing the first image of a black hole, is set to receive significant upgrades that will enhance its capabilities and potentially unlock new...

Recent studies have dealt a significant blow to the hypothesis that primordial black holes could account for dark matter, shifting the focus of scientific inquiry toward alternative explanations. Overview Of...

Recent astronomical observations have uncovered a mysterious phenomenon: stars disappearing from the night sky. Over the past 70 years, about 800 stars have vanished without the typical explosive end of...

Astronomers have observed matter plunging into the mouth of a black hole at the speed of light, confirming a key prediction made by Einstein's general theory of relativity. This discovery...

“Black holes are an incredibly unique and fascinating feature of our universe,” said University of Queensland theoretical physicist, Joshua Foo about their mind-bending ability to have different masses simultaneously. “They’re...

Posted on Oct 17, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Life, quantum physics, Science, Space News, Technology, Universe Today’s stories include Why technologically advanced aliens would have to be...

Posted on Oct 10, 2022 in Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Consciousness, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Planet Earth, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Technology Today’s stories include William...

Posted on Aug 17, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Cosmology, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Early Universe, Extraterrestrial Life, Hubble Tension, James Webb Space Telescope, Multiverse, NASA, Science, Space News, Technology, Universe...

Posted on Jul 19, 2022 in Science Today’s stories range from Black holes may die differently than we thought to Have we been measuring gravity wrong this whole time? and...

“We do know that black holes are extraordinary phenomena,” said Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, professor in the Department of Physics at Université de Montréal about the ultra-massive behemoths lurking at most galaxy...

Today’s stories range from The James Webb is About to Take Us to the “Edge of Time” to 4 Signs of Alien Tech That Could Lead Us to Extraterrestrial Life,...

Black holes previously hiding in plain sight have been discovered by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who have found a treasure trove of massive black...

Could the formation of supermassive black holes, as well as the nature of dark matter, be the result of violent cosmological phase transition in the dark sector of the Universe....

Posted on Mar 11, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology These are some of the key questions in the new era of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics,” says assistant professor Johan...

Today’s stories range from Mysterious Globular Clusters Could Unlock the Secrets of Galaxy Formation to ‘Quantum Gravity’ Could Emerge From a Holographic Universe to  25,000 Supermassive Black Holes in One...

Recent studies show that wandering, nomadic black holes smaller than 10 billion solar masses greatly outnumber the central supermassive black holes in the universe at large, which would make for...

“The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time,” said...

“The Galaxy Report” brings you news of space and science that has the capacity to provide clues to the mystery of our existence and adds a much needed cosmic perspective...

Posted on Dec 6, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Space, Universe Stephen Hawking’s Warning –“Treating AI as Science Fiction Would Potentially Be Our Worst Mistake Ever” Plumes of Enceladus and Europa–Harbinger’s...

  Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona via Jackie Faherty and Radboud University Black holes have been described as “the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in...

Posted on Sep 26, 2021 in Alien Life, Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology, Dark Matter, Science, Space, Universe It’s been another prolific week in the Cosmos from Homo sapiens...

Posted on Sep 7, 2021 in Science Andromeda’s “Covid-19”? –astrophysicist Paul Davies argues virus may pervade the cosmos. A primordial black hole could possibly hit Earth. Mysterious blobs 100 times...

We’re kicking off the week with intriguing stories from our Universe beyond–from exoplanets in the ancient, densely populated bulge of the Milky Way to the mystery of eternal brown dwarfs...

Posted on Aug 12, 2021 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Science, Universe Astronomers  have discovered strange clouds of electrons surrounding distant galaxies using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope,...

In August of 2019 at the Keck Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii,  astrophysicist Tuan Do, Deputy Director of the UCLA Galactic Center Group, observed that in...

“According to Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, nothing can escape from the gravity of a black hole once it has passed a point of no return, known as the event...

Nobel-Prize laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, for whom NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory was named, described black holes as “the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in...

Hubble astronomers found something extraordinary at the heart of nearby globular cluster NGC 6397 –a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there instead of one monster, supermassive black hole. Ancient...

A new theoretical study has proposed a natural explanation for how supermassive black holes –once described as “the most perfect macroscopic objects in the universe, the only elements in their...

Posted on Jan 29, 2021 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology, Cosmos, Dark Matter, Extraterrestrial Life, Science, Science News, Space, Universe Welcome to this week’s fix of news of space...

(For the Holiday Season, from Christmas through New Year’s Day. we’ll post 2020’s most viewed articles as ranked by Google Analytics.) “If space is truly infinite,” observes Dan Hooper, head...

“Ancient black holes would give us access to physics we would never otherwise be able to do,” wrote Dan Hooper, head of the theoretical astrophysics group at Fermilab, in an...

“Beyond Homo Sapiens” –‘Just a Slightly Different Roll of the Darwinian Dice’ Eerie Implications of Hawking Points –“Corpses of Black Holes from Before the Big Bang” “2068” –Massive Asteroid Apophis...

Posted on Nov 19, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Science, Space “In a sense, the galaxy hardest for us to see is our own,” wrote Issac Assimov. “For one thing,...

The blurry orange image of the monster black hole the size of our solar system at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87 captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)...

“If space is truly infinite,” observes Dan Hooper, head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in At the Edge of Time, “the implications are staggering....

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Posted on Sep 19, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Cosmology, Science Noble-Prize laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, for whom NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory was named, described black holes as “the most perfect...

“The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe –the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time,” said...

Posted on Jul 15, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Holes . An enduring mystery is where the largest black holes in the universe come from –massive cosmic paradoxes where creation is...

The strange cosmic paradoxes, that Princeton quantum physicist John Archibald Wheeler coined “black holes,” have no memory, yet are said to contain the earliest memories of the universe, as well...

Did primordial Black holes –described as “the gates of hell, the end of spacetime, paradoxical, intriguing, frightening” by the Event Horizon Telescope scientists who imaged the now iconic black hole...

Posted on Mar 21, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Dark Energy Black holes, predicted Einstein, are supposed to have a singularity—a point that is so small and dense that...

“If our universe is just one of an infinite number, then once inflation stopped in ours, pockets within it that had been inflating would have then collapsed into black holes....