Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a ... Read more The post What If a Black Hole Passed Near the Solar System? appeared first on weather-fox.

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as cosmologists are hailing the successes of the Big Bang theory, increasingly there is a chorus of physicists couragously wondering aloud if the origins of the universe may be even stranger and more understandable than we ever

By using light to emulate the structure of space-time, researchers can better understand black holes – and the exotic objects that mimic them

Imagine if a species grew up on a planet that had a black hole moon the mass of the moon. They’d have tides, they’d have an unobstructed view of the night sky, and they’d have no clue about this behemoth out there and would be unable to explain these bizarre perturbations in Earth’s orbit when they finally worked out Earth’s orbit.

The effect of this man-made black hole produced a temperature rise that matches the theoretical expectations of a black hole system. The fake event horizon even showed signs of glowing in the lab ...

Time to eat. Astronomers watched in real time as the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy went from dim and quiet to bright and actively feeding on material, Adam Mann reported in ...