In a rare moment of history, researchers have captured an image of a black hole in the middle of our galaxy. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), with an international team working with eight synchronised radio telescopes from around the world to capture the picture. The image captured shows a glowing circle […]
Although many believed sound in space just wasn’t possible, NASA has dismissed this myth, releasing a new video allowing the world to hear what the black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster sounds like. Building on sound waves astronomers earlier extracted, this new sonification — translated from astronomical data — makes them […]
Astronomers have detected a historic giant black hole in the making as two supermassive black holes look set to merge in a cataclysmic collision. It’s the first time astronomers have spotted two supermassive black holes so close to one another and they’ve said they will eventually merge into one colossal cosmic abyss. Black holes, considered […]
John Archibald Wheeler, a theoretical physicist who coined the terms black hole and wormhole, was born on this day in 1911. Did you know that: • An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D Young set out to search for Dr David Livingstone on this day in 1867• American inventor Henry Tibbe patented an improved corncob pipe […]
