Black holes are monstrous and monolithic regions of space and time that have captured humanity's imagination. Some are created by…
Scientists have discovered that molecules scramble quantum information at rates comparable to black holes, affecting chemical reactions and offering insights…
Rice University theorist Peter Wolynes and collaborators at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have shown that molecules can be as…
A hiccuping supermassive black hole has alerted astronomers to a whole new type of black hole behavior. In 2020, a previously…
An enormous map of the universe has been assembled from the positions of almost 1.3 million quasars; some of these…
A cluster of eerily circular holes recently appeared in the clouds above Florida, a stunning new NASA image shows. The…
A galaxy some 750 million light-years away has been discovered hosting the heftiest pair of supermassive black holes we've ever…
Two supermassive black holes found in collision-created "fossil galaxies" are so massive that they refuse to collide and merge. The…
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful black hole eruptions ever seen — and this immense explosion, which occurred…
"What came first, the galaxy or its monster black hole?" Technically, it's an even more ancient riddle than the one about…
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