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Gravitational waves are vibrations of space-time itself Peter Jurick/Alamy The following is an excerpt from the Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Every month, we hand the keyboard…
Light cannot be condensed enough to form a black holeVadim Sadovsky/Shutterstock It seems impossible for light alone to form a black hole: if energy and mass…
We’ve seen waterfalls of matter fall into black holes Bradaki / Alamy Stock Photo A strange region called a “plunging region” has been discovered for the…
How would a mirror traveling at the speed of light work? We may now knowImagine Photographer/Getty Images More than a century ago, Albert Einstein discovered a…
In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration resolved the central black hole of the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M 87), known as M87*,…
