The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team is still planning future observations, but it’s also looking at old data to strengthen our understanding of how black holes work. The fruit of that labor is a short movie showing the evolution of the now-famous black hole over the past decade.
So-called intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH) between the two extremes have been elusive, until now. Scientists with the LIGO and VIRGO Scientific Collaboration report spotting an IMBH billions of light-years away thanks to peculiar gravitational waves.
How often do planets in other solar systems smash into each other? A new AI designed by Princeton researchers can crunch the numbers with record speed to determine which potential orbits are stable and which will result in catastrophe.
The Large Hadron Collider is the most advanced and complex machine ever built by humanity, but there’s only so much you can do with a 27-kilometer particle collider. So, CERN has approved plans to build a much larger collider called the Future Circular Collider (FCC) with a 100-kilometer (62-mile) circumference.
When last we heard from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the team had just made history by producing the first-ever image of a black hole. Now, the EHT has turned its attention to a more distant black hole.
Highly sensitive instruments in Antarctica have been detecting extremely energetic particles emerging from the icy surface, and the Standard Model says that shouldn’t happen.
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