If you were to fall into a black hole (which we do not recommend), you”d likely find a singularity, or an infinitely small and dense point, at the center.“ That is what physicists have always believed. But now a pair … Read More
The unusual world is among the first targets studied by the new space observatory. Astronomers have released the first image of an exoplanet captured by JWST, and it shows a strange new world. The groundbreaking telescope is said to have … Read More
The newly processed image looks out of a sci-fi movie but it is very real Imagine dropping a shining gem into a dark pond, and you’ll get a close-up view of WR 140 as seen by JWST. Ripples spread from … Read More
NASA has released a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a 250 million light-years-away supermassive black hole. The black hole is at the heart of the Perseus galaxy cluster, and the acoustic waves it emits have been … Read More
Using data from the JWST, an amateur on Reddit created the first image of the TRAPPIST-1 system. JWST, a telescope so powerful that it makes Hubble look like someone smeared their thumb on the lens, has already taken a long … Read More
A long, thin wormhole, similar to some strange form of optical fibre, could allow us to send light pulses through time. Wormholes are tunnels that connect two points in space-time, as predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. If something … Read More