Cosmic ‘Dead Zone’ for Black Holes Is Real, New Evidence Suggests

Cosmic 'Dead Zone' for Black Holes Is Real, New Evidence Suggests

The latest update to LIGO’s catalog has doubled the number of confirmed gravitational waves – waves in spacetime caused by catastrophic events. And now, astronomers come to the dire decision of selecting an updated dataset. In a Nature paper published today, researchers have confirmed the first evidence of two unstable supernovae, doing so with gravitational … Read more

The physics of no return: What actually happens if you get pulled into a black hole

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In 1916, just a year after Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity, Karl Schwarzschild used mathematical calculations to show this: If enough mass were packed into a very small volume, then this dense enough mass would create a region where the gravitational force is so strong that nothing, including light, could escape from … Read more