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Galaxies are spooky places.Space itself is scary enough—dark, vast, cold and empty—but galaxies have all manner of terrifying beasts lurking inside. Most of these astrophysical monsters…

Mikel Arteta has admitted that he is tempted to play the 15-year-old Max Dowman against Brighton in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night. “When you look…

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical…

September 10, 20255 min readNew Black Hole Measurements Show More Ways Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein Were RightSpacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the…

Since its launch in late 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been glimpsing some of the earliest epochs of cosmic time. Its observations have…

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of…

During a nasty summer heat wave — see: much of the US right now — water is a reliable source of relief. Where there are no…