Destroying a black hole with rockets, shooting lasers at it, smashing planets into it, is not gonna work. Nothing like that would work, more interestingly whatever you throw at it will just make it bigger and angrier. So the only way to destroy a black hole is to sit back and wait for it to…
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A Telescope the Size Of Earth Captures A Star being Swallowed by a Supermassive Black Hole
Radio astronomers have used a radio telescope network the size of the Earth to zoom in on a unique phenomenon in a distant galaxy: a jet activated by a star being consumed by a supermassive black hole. The record-sharp observations reveal a compact and surprisingly slowly moving source of radio waves, with details published in…
New Era’ of Astrophysics: Why Gravitational Waves Are So Important
There was big news in astrophysics this week: An experiment detected ripples in space-time, known as gravitational waves, created by two black holes colliding in space 1.4 billion light-years from Earth. That certainly sounds … complicated. But what’s the big deal, exactly? Why are scientists so excited about this new discovery? What does it tell…
Physicists say they’ve figured out how to ‘see’ inside a black hole
What lies beyond the event horizon. Physicists have come up with a new way to predict what lies beyond the event horizon of a black hole, and it could give us a more accurate idea of their mysterious internal structures. Thanks to the first – and now second – direct observation of gravitational waves emanating…