Our Universe may be perfectly nested inside a black hole that is part of a larger Universe, like a cosmic Russian doll. In turn, all of the black holes discovered so far in our Universe—from microscopic to supermassive—could be ultimate … Read More
Interstellar travel may not be lightyears away. Breakthrough Starshot, an international research project, recently provided an update on its plans to send a probe to Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighboring star system. Before that, it will have to develop and … Read More
An experiment that could confirm the universe’s fifth state of matter — and change physics as we know it — has been published in a new research paper from the University of Portsmouth in England. Dr. Melvin Vopson, a physicist, … Read More
You don’t have to be a science expert to understand that black holes more often pull things in rather than spit them out. However, NASA has recently discovered something strange around the supermassive black hole Markarian 335. Two space telescopes … Read More
A water reserve the size of 140 trillion oceans lurks in a distant supermassive black hole, the Universe’s largest deposit of water ever found – 4,000 times the amount found in the Milky Way. Two teams of astronomers discovered this … Read More
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which is currently pointing at the skies from its home in the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Arizona’s Kitt Peak National Observatory, is tasked with charting the expansion of space, investigating dark energy, and … Read More