NASA
NASA | Swift Finds 'Missing' Active Galaxies
Most large galaxies contain a giant central black hole. In an active galaxy, matter falling toward the supermassive black hole powers high-energy emissions so intense that two classes of active galaxies, quasars and blazars, rank as the...
Astrum
What's special about the Event Horizon Telescope that imaged the M87* black hole?
Why wasn't it Hubble that imaged M87*, or Messier 87's supermassive black hole? Is the Event Horizon Telescope more powerful?
AllTime 10s
10 Extraterrestrial Discoveries That Could Prove Aliens Exist
Is there life on Mars? Could the newly discovered planets around Trappist-1 be home to aliens? Alltime 10s investigates, with 10 Biggest Discoveries In The Search For Alien Life.
Next Animation Studio
Scientists are building a wormhole tunnel analogue in quantum circuits
Scientists have proposed to build a functional wormhole tunnel by simulating quantum entangled black holes in a lab.
AllTime 10s
10 Ways The Universe Could Destroy Us At Any Moment
All of this Trump and Kim Jong Un drama on earth is mere child's play compared to these ways that our own Universe could wipe us out today!
NASA
XMM-Newton Celebrates 20 Years in Space
Scientists reflect on XMM-Newton’s 20th anniversary. The mission, led by ESA (European Space Agency), has dramatically improved our understanding of the cosmos thanks to detailed X-ray observations. NASA funded two of its three...
Curated Video
NASA in Silicon Valley: James De Buizer Talks About SOFIA’s New Zealand Observations
A conversation with James De Buizer, the science planning and instrument support manager for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy or SOFIA.
Next Animation Studio
Magnetic field may be keeping Milky Way’s black hole at bay
A magnetic field at the center of our galaxy may be keeping a supermassive black hole at bay.
Next Animation Studio
X-ray echoes allows scientists to map out black holes: study
Astronomers have found a novel way to explore the regions around a black hole.
AllTime 10s
10 Lies You Still Believe About Space
Space. It's the final frontier and one of the great unknowns for mankind. But you probably don't even know what you don't know about it. So sit back and find out why your 4th grade science teacher was probably completely off.
Science360
LIGO Looking Forward
The recipients of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics share an insider's look into the future of the world's largest gravitational wave detectors. From peering inside a supernova to capturing signals from the universe's first moment,...
NASA
NASA's Fermi Satellite Celebrates 10 Years of Discoveries
On June 11, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope celebrates a decade of using gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light in the cosmos, to study black holes, neutron stars, and other extreme cosmic objects and events. Fermi's main...
NASA
NASA's Curious Universe: Inside a Black Hole
Don't let the name fool you: a black hole is anything but empty space. Black holes are some of the most extreme, bizarre and fascinating objects in the universe. Regina Caputo and Jeremy Schnittman describe what it might be like to go...
Next Animation Studio
Scientists discover extremely massive black hole
Researchers have discovered a massive black hole 15,000 light years from Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Next Animation Studio
Evidence for the hypothetical existence of Planet 9 increases
Evidence of the existence of a ninth planet in our solar system is unlikely to be a fluke, according to a pre-print of a California Institute of Technology study.
NASA
Hubble finds a Black Hole Igniting Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy
Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe—tearing apart stars, consuming anything that comes too close, and holding light captive. Detailed evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, however, shows a black hole in...
NASA
X-ray Echoes Map a Black Hole’s Disk
Some 3.9 billion years ago in the heart of a distant galaxy, the tidal pull of a monster black hole shredded a star that wandered too close. X-rays produced in this event first reached Earth on March 28, 2011, when they were detected by...
NASA
NASA | X-ray 'Echoes' Probe Habitat of Monster Black Hole
Astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite have found a long-sought X-ray signal from NGC 4151, a galaxy that contains a supermassive black hole. The discovery promises a new way to unravel what's...
Science360
How do you find a black hole?
How do you find a black hole? Dr. Andrea Ghez answers your question in this special “Mysteries of the Cosmos” edition of Ask a Scientist.
Science360
What is a black hole?
What is a black hole? Hans Krimm, an observational astronomer at the National Science Foundation, answers the question on this edition of "Ask a Scientist."
NASA
NASA | Blazar Bonanza
A long time ago in a galaxy half the universe away, a flood of high-energy gamma rays began its journey to Earth. When they arrived in April, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope caught the outburst, which helped two ground-based...
Science360
How the Event Horizon Telescope took first ever image of a black hole
Brief oveview of the Event Horizon telescope with a simple explanation of how the EHT works and the black hole image it captured. Includes a soundbite with the National Science Foundation director and the Event Horizon Telescope director.
NASA
NASA | Highlights of Swift's Decade of Discovery
NASA's Swift satellite rode to orbit aboard a Delta II rocket on November 20, 2004, and it's still going strong. Swift's unique instrumentation allows it to quickly locate an interesting high-energy outburst, automatically determine its...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Discussion and Q&A: The Future of Europe 6/6
Discussion and Q&A at the panel entitled "The Future of Europe" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 13, 2012. #inetberlin