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When a black hole and a neutron star finally meet, the result is cosmic carnage—and now, thanks to Caltech’s latest supercomputer simulations, we’re getting a front-row seat to the whole ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

Brian Cox tackles the black hole information paradox, revealing how quantum theory suggests info isn't lost but encoded—possibly on the event horizon—reshaping our understanding of reality.

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

That’s right: You could be living inside a black hole. This bold claim comes from a paper led by professor Enrique Gaztanaga of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences in Barcelona published in ...

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The black hole universe also offers a new perspective on our place in the cosmos. In this framework, our entire observable universe lies inside the interior of a black hole formed in some larger ...

This phenomenon occurs because, as the black hole engulfs the neutron star, it also pulls in the star's magnetic field. "But it needs to get rid of that," Most said in a statement.