First binary star detected near supermassive black hole
An international team of researchers has detected the first binary starthat is, two stars orbiting each other near the supermassive ...
Tag: black holes
Black holes and the tragic origin of their name
José Alfonso Morera Ortiz, better known as El Hortelano, was a painter to the stars. In one of the many ...
Can information travel to the past?
When I read the question from today's consultation I thought "why do you ask it like that, instead of asking ...
The black hole that drags (especially) female scientists
Doubt offends, the saying goes. In science, however, doubt does not offend but its very basis. Everything is susceptible to ...
The oldest known black hole discovered
After the Big Bang, everything happened very quickly. An international team of astronomers has just published, in the magazine Nature, ...