Black Holes
Black Holes and Neutron Stars are Finally Linked to Supernovae
Everybody knows that the explosive deaths of supermassive stars (called supernovae) lead to the creation of black holes or neutron…
What Could a Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Do?
Telescopes have come a long way in a little over four hundred years! It was 1608 that Dutch spectacle maker…
Dark Matter Could Help Solve the Final Parsec Problem of Black Holes
One outstanding mystery in astrophysics is known as the "final parsec problem." Simulations predict that binary black holes should stall…
Vera Rubin Will Find Binary Supermassive Black Holes. Here’s How.
When galaxies merge, we expect them to produce binary black holes (BBHs.) BBHs orbit one another closely, and when they…
Can a Dead Star Keep Exploding?
In September 2022, an automated sky survey detected what seemed to be a supernova explosion about one billion light-years away.…
How Black Holes Consume Entropy
Entropy is one of those fearsomely deep concepts that form the core of entire fields of physics (in this case,…
The Origins of the Black Hole Information Paradox
While physics tells us that information can neither be created nor destroyed (if information could be created or destroyed, then…
The Maddening Simplicity of Black Holes
Black holes. The name is said to come from the Black Hole of Calcutta, an infamous prison that you cannot…
Growing Black Hole Seen Only 470 Million Years After the Big Bang
One of the big questions in cosmology asks when black holes first showed up in the early Universe. Recently astronomers…
If We Could Find Them, Primordial Black Holes Would Explain a Lot About the Universe
As far as we know, black holes can only be formed by the death of massive stars, but a persistent…