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what interstellar’s black hole can teach us about science in entertainment
Interstellar, to be perfectly forthright, seemed like Inception with spaceships and black holes, the equivalent of a new hit single with the same chord progression as the last one. But one of the...
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right round, like a black hole baby, right round…
Computer simulation of a black hole’s event horizon exhibiting a phenomenon known as frame dragging, in which space is warped at different speeds based on the movement of the black hole Black holes...
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why black holes have magnetic storms like stars
Using the tremendous resolving power of the ESO’s Very Large Telescope array in Chile, astronomers used the new GRAVITY instrument to detect the “wobble” of bright patches embedded inside the...
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world of weird things podcast: ultimate doomsday prepping
Well, folks, that’s all for the universe as we know it. Cold, dark, and filled with disintegrating stellar corpses. But your civilization is still around. What do you do? Where do you go as the cosmos...
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unmasking a monster: a “stunning confirmation” of black hole theory
When Avery Broderick initially saw the first image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), he thought it was too good to be true. After playing a critical role in the project since its inception in...
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world of weird things podcast: a (theoretical) peek inside a black hole
Now that everyone saw and talked about the EHT black hole image, it’s probably a good time to catch up on all the details the popular explainers missed, like what’s inside a black hole, what happens...
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putting hawking to the test with sonic blasters and supercooled gas
Falling into a black hole is an extremely complicated and difficult to study process that puzzled physicists and cosmologists for decades. Since matter that crosses the event horizon is more or less...
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wowt explains: what is a black hole?
Over the century or so that we’ve been interested in black holes, we’ve gotten so comfortable with the term that it barely phases us when it’s mentioned. But much of what we typically think we know...
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the cosmic buffet: are black holes snacking on neutron stars?
One of the most puzzling phenomena in high energy astronomy are FRBs, or fast radio bursts indicating vast amounts of energy but vanishing in the blink of an eye. Plenty of suggestions for these...
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zombie worlds are out there, and they’re terrifying places
You probably think you know what happens when a solar system is born. A spinning disk of gas and dust collapses on itself, gaining enough mass and pressure to fuse hydrogen into helium while the...
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