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The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning so fast, it's squishing space-time down like a football
The black hole, Sagittarius A* is located 26,000 light-years away from Earth, at the center of the …
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Scientists used a galaxy cluster that warps space-time as a giant magnifying glass to find 2 distant galaxies
Penn State researchers looked through the gravitational lens created by Pandora's Cluster to find t…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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An experiment that reaches across the galaxy has 'heard' an invisible sea of ripples in space-time for the first time. It's surprisingly loud.
This thrum of gravitational waves is constantly pulsing through the universe. It opens a window int…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New James Webb telescope photo of a galaxy cluster 6 billion light years away shows a trippy phenomenon where gravity warps spacetime
One of the galaxies captured by Nasa's James Webb Telescope includes a galaxy known as the Cosmic S…
Hannah Getahun
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An experiment that reaches across our galaxy has detected the first signs of a possible 'sea' of ripples in space-time
Supermassive black holes merging in distant galaxies could be creating a background hum of gravitat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A black hole warped space-time so much that astronomers saw flashes of light from its far side
Albert Einstein predicted that black holes warp space-time, and astronomers just saw the proof - fl…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Einstein thought we'd never detect ripples in space-time. But 100 years later, a remarkable experiment is proving him wrong over and over.
Einstein predicted that noise and vibrations on Earth would prevent us from ever being able to dete…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Black holes can produce light when they collide, new research shows — astronomers just saw the first-ever 'flare' from a spacetime-bending merger
Two black holes crashed together and merged within a disk of hot matter orbiting another larger bla…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A mesmerizing NASA animation shows how a nearby black hole would warp spacetime like a fun-house mirror
The visualization first shows what a black hole would look like from the side (the way it appears i…
Aria Bendix
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A one-time Fortnite event featured a rocket launch and rifts in the space-time continuum - here's what it looked like
If you log in to "Fortnite: Battle Royale" right now, you'll notice what looks like a large crack i…
Kaylee Fagan
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Here's why astronauts age slower than the rest of us here on Earth
Astronauts on the International Space Station age slightly slower than the rest of us on Earth due …
Kelly Dickerson,Natalie Musum…
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YouTuber helps researchers solve the mystery of a 2,000-year-old 'computer'
The Antikythera mechanism was discovered over 100 years ago. Researchers think they solved the anci…
Jenny McGrath
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Here’s what falling inside a black hole would look like, according to a NASA supercomputer simulation
Have you ever wondered what happens if you were to fall into a black hole? Thanks to cutting-edge v…
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'The Marvels' has 1 post-credits scene. Here's what it means for the future of the MCU.
"The Marvels" is directed by Nia DaCosta and stars Brie Larson. Here's what to know about the post-…
Olivia Singh
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A 'cosmic glitch' in the universe is forcing astronomers to rethink Einstein's theory of relativity
Scientists have found evidence that Einstein's general theory of relativity doesn't quite work in t…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Scientists want to build telescopes on the moon for up to $10 billion to see more of the universe than the James Webb Space Telescope
Astronomers want to build giant telescopes on the moon. They're already drafting blueprints and mak…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Hidden third stars could be making binary star system members eat each other, scientists find
Scientists speculate that the concealed third star in Be star systems might gradually compel the mo…
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Stephen Hawking's famous theory of how black holes die could mean our entire universe is doomed to evaporate, a new study found
Hawking radiation predicts black holes lose energy and eventually evaporate. Now a new study predic…
Jessica Orwig
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Albert Einstein used to ponder these 5 mind-melting questions for fun. Can you figure them out?
Einstein's thought experiments help conceptualize complex scientific ideas for people without acade…