Why This Universe? Maybe It’s Not Special—Just Probable
Cosmologists have spent decades striving to understand why our universe is so stunningly vanilla. Not only is it smooth and flat as far as we can see, but…
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The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst Sparks a Supernova Hunt
On the morning of October 9, astronomers’ inboxes pinged with a relatively modest alert: NASA’s Swift Observatory had just detected a fresh burst of energy,…
What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key
On May 12, at nine simultaneous press conferences around the world, astrophysicists revealed the first image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.…
For the first time, a black hole was caught
FP StaffOct 14, 2022 16:26:35 ISTA startling new discovery was made completely by accident that could possibly change everything that we know about black…
At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable
In 1963, the mathematician Roy Kerr found a solution to Einstein’s equations that precisely described the spacetime outside what we now call a rotating black…
Explained: What are supermassive black holes, the one which was photographed at the centre of The…
FP ExplainersMay 13, 2022 16:45:27 ISTFor the first time, astronomers have captured an image of the supermassive black hole or SMBH, at the centre of our…
NASA releases eerie audio recording from black hole, listen to it here- Technology News, Firstpost
FP TrendingMay 07, 2022 12:55:47 ISTScientists from NASA have released an eerie, Hans Zimmer-like audio from a radar that captured sounds from a black hole…
NASA’s Chandra telescope finds location of medium-sized black holes
New York, April 22
Intermediate-mass black holes are notoriously hard to find but a new study indicates…
A New Tool for Finding Dark Matter Digs Up Nothing
Even the strongest gravitational waves that pass through the planet, created by the distant collisions of black holes, only stretch and compress each mile of…
Stephen Hawking death anniversary: Here are some of his groundbreaking theories- Technology News,…
FP TrendingMar 12, 2022 07:39:32 ISTBritish physicist Stephen Hawking passed away on this day, 14 March, in the year 2018. His death at the age of 76 left…