9 Things You Didn’t Know About Black Holes
An artist’s impression of GRB 221009A, which may have heralded the birth of a black hole.Image: NASA/Swift/Cruz deWilde Black holes. Despite their names, the enigmatic objects are opposite of vacuous.…
Mystery Object in Deep Space Is Confounding Astronomers
A team of scientists found a compact object 40,000 light-years from Earth that is either a very massive neutron star or an itsy-bitsy black hole, but they’re not sure which.…