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December 21, 2025

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Gravitational Waves May Reveal Hidden Dark Matter Around Black Holes

Dec. 19, 2025 Gravitational waves from black holes may soon reveal where dark matter is hiding. A new model shows how dark matter surrounding massive black holes leaves detectable fingerprints in the waves recorded by future space ...

A Star Torn Apart by a Black Hole Lit Up the Universe Twice

Aug. 22, 2025 Astronomers using AI have captured a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event: a massive star’s violent death triggered by its black hole companion. The explosion, known as SN 2023zkd, not only produced a brilliant supernova but also shocked scientists by ...

AI Reveals Milky Way’s Black Hole Spins Near Top Speed

June 15, 2025 AI has helped astronomers crack open some of the universe s best-kept secrets by analyzing massive datasets about black holes. Using over 12 million simulations powered by high-throughput computing, scientists discovered that the Milky Way's central ...

Black Holes Could Act as Natural Supercolliders -- And Help Uncover Dark Matter

June 5, 2025 Supermassive black holes might naturally replicate the colossal energies of man-made particle colliders possibly even revealing dark matter offering a cosmic shortcut to discoveries that would ...

Scientists Discover New Evidence of Intermediate-mass Black Holes

May 30, 2025 A series of studies sheds light on the origins and characteristics of intermediate-mass black ...

'Cosmic Joust': Astronomers Observe Pair of Galaxies in Deep-space Battle

May 21, 2025 Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation. Their results show that this radiation dampens the wounded galaxy's ability to form new ...

Not One, but Two Massive Black Holes Are Eating Away at This Galaxy

May 19, 2025 Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with another galaxy, or have been tossed out of the core ...

New Insights Into Black Hole Scattering and Gravitational Waves Unveiled

May 15, 2025 A new study achieves unprecedented accuracy in modelling extreme cosmic events like black hole and neutron star collisions by calculating the fifth post-Minkowskian (5PM) order, crucial for interpreting gravitational wave data from current and ...

Universe Decays Faster Than Thought, but Still Takes a Long Time

May 12, 2025 The universe is decaying much faster than thought. This is shown by calculations of scientists on the so-called Hawking radiation. They calculate that the last stellar remnants take about 10^78 years (a 1 with 78 zeros) to perish. That is much ...

Astrophysicist Searches for Ripples in Space and Time in New Way

May 12, 2025 Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational ...

The Squid Galaxy's Neutrino Game Just Leveled Up

May 8, 2025 In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A new paper posits that helium nuclei collide with ...

Bridging Worlds: Physicists Develop Novel Test of the Holographic Principle

May 7, 2025 In the quest toward finding the correct theory of quantum gravity, physicists have been testing the holographic principle which, they say, is a key property of any valid theory of quantum ...

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Astronomers Just Watched a Black Hole Twist Spacetime

Dec. 18, 2025 Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, seen during a star’s violent destruction, confirms a prediction made ...

Hidden Dimensions Could Explain Where Mass Comes from

Dec. 15, 2025 A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, ...

Astronomers Watched a Sleeping Neutron Star Roar Back to Life

Dec. 14, 2025 Astronomers tracked a decade of dramatic changes in P13, a neutron star undergoing supercritical accretion. Its X-ray luminosity rose and fell by factors of hundreds while its rotation rate ...

New Cosmic Lens Measurements Deepen the Hubble Tension Mystery

Dec. 9, 2025 Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their results match “local” measurements but clash with early-universe ...

Astronomers Capture Sudden Black Hole Blast Firing Ultra Fast Winds

Dec. 9, 2025 A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

A Cosmic Collision Reveals How Black Holes Really Behave

Dec. 8, 2025 A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including Hawking’s area theorem and Einstein’s ringdown behavior. The findings also ...

Cosmic Knots May Finally Explain Why the Universe Exists

Dec. 7, 2025 Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new research showing how two powerful symmetries could have created stable ...

Astronomers Find a Planet Orbiting at a Wild Angle No One Can Explain

Dec. 4, 2025 A network of powerful ground-based telescopes captured rare starspot-crossing events on TOI-3884b, revealing cooler patches on the star’s surface and rapid changes tied to its rotation. By ...

Surprising Optics Breakthrough Could Transform Our View of the Universe

Dec. 4, 2025 FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power. By using custom thermal patterns, it preserves mirror shape without ...

Dead Stars Aren’t So Dead After All: The Hidden Force Inflating White Dwarfs

Dec. 2, 2025 Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory predicts. Researchers found that powerful tidal forces between them ...

Scientists May Have Found Dark Matter After 100 Years of Searching

Nov. 29, 2025 Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher ...

Microquasars Emerge as the Milky Way’s Most Extreme Particle Engines

Nov. 16, 2025 LHAASO has uncovered that micro-quasars, black holes feeding on companion stars, are powerful PeV particle accelerators. Their jets produce ultra-high-energy gamma rays and protons that exceed ...

Astronomers Unveil the Surprising Hidden Geometry of a Supernova

Nov. 16, 2025 Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied ...

Astronomers Spot a Rare Planet-Stripping Eruption on a Nearby Star

Nov. 14, 2025 Scientists have finally confirmed a powerful coronal mass ejection from another star, using LOFAR radio data paired with XMM-Newton’s X-ray insights. The eruption blasted into space at ...

Astronomers Just Solved the Mystery of “impossible” Black Holes

Nov. 11, 2025 New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful magnetic forces act on a collapsing, spinning star, they eject vast amounts of ...

Einstein Might Have Been Wrong About Black Holes

Nov. 8, 2025 Researchers are using black hole shadows to challenge Einstein’s theory of relativity. With new simulations and future ultra-sharp telescope images, they may uncover signs that his famous equations ...

Black Hole Blast Outshines 10 Trillion Suns

Nov. 7, 2025 A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a flare 30 times brighter than any seen before. The flare, detected by ...

CERN Creates Cosmic “fireballs” That Could Reveal the Universe’s Hidden Magnetism

Nov. 7, 2025 Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, researchers generated plasma fireballs to simulate blazar jets. The beams stayed stable, suggesting plasma instabilities aren’t responsible for missing ...

Twin Black Hole Collisions Put Einstein’s General Relativity to Its Most Extreme Test

Oct. 30, 2025 Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window into the universe’s most extreme events. These collisions not only ...

Nearby Super-Earth Emerges as a Top Target in the Search for Life

Nov. 23, 2025 Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away. Sophisticated instruments detected the planet’s gentle tug on its star, hinting at ...

Dark Matter May Be Lighting Up the Heart of the Milky Way

Nov. 5, 2025 Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This distorted structure could naturally explain the puzzling gamma-ray glow ...

Something Mysterious Is Lighting Up the Milky Way. Could It Be Dark Matter?

Oct. 18, 2025 Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the heart of our galaxy that could signal unseen matter colliding — or ...

Rogue Black Hole Shocks Astronomers With Record Radio Blast

Oct. 16, 2025 For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest-changing radio signals ever recorded. The event, AT 2024tvd, revealed ...

Astronomers Detect a Cosmic “heartbeat” in Pulsar Signals

Oct. 15, 2025 Researchers analyzing pulsar data have found tantalizing hints of ultra-slow gravitational waves. A team from Hirosaki University suggests these signals might carry “beats” — patterns formed by ...

JWST Spots a Hidden Red Supergiant Just Before It Exploded

Oct. 9, 2025 The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a massive red supergiant star just before it exploded, finally solving a cosmic mystery. Hidden beneath layers of dust, the doomed star revealed itself ...

Scientists Uncover a Hidden Power Source Inside a Monster Black Hole

Oct. 7, 2025 Scientists have simulated how M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, powers its immense particle jet. The Frankfurt team’s FPIC code shows that magnetic reconnection, ...

JWST May Have Found the Universe’s First Stars Powered by Dark Matter

Oct. 14, 2025 New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by ...

The Bold Idea That Spacetime Doesn’t Exist

Nov. 2, 2025 Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates philosophical confusion and fuels misconceptions, such as time-travel ...

Einstein’s Overlooked Idea Could Explain How the Universe Really Began

Oct. 18, 2025 Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the driving force behind creation. Their simulations show that gravity and ...

The Surprising New Particle That Could Finally Explain Dark Matter

Sep. 25, 2025 Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter candidates. Unlike axions or WIMPs, these particles carry electric charge ...