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# science
It seems we finally understand something about black holes and their behavior.
# space
A new paper argues that nothing ever really falls into a black hole thanks to extreme time dilation and frame dragging.
# space
A new estimate for the energy required to power a warp drive puts the theoretical technology well within the realm of plausibility.
# astrobiology
If aliens want to go really, really fast, there's a small chance we could catch them in the act.
# science
A new paper says that warp drives could bathe planets in apocalyptic radiation storms, but how it arrives at this conclusion raises a lot of questions.
# space
For decades, scientists thought that a habitable world needed a large moon to act like a rudder. That idea might not actually be true.
# space
Just like supermassive black holes, planets can bend light with their gravity. But do they bend it enough for us to detect them that way?
# space
How big are some supermassive black holes? Just trying to scale them down to numbers we can wrap our minds around is a challenge in and of itself.
# space
An Italian mathematician is trying to replace dark matter observation by playing with models of gravitational measurements.
# science
Cosmologists are still puzzling over faint signals in the CMBR that may or may not be there and indicate profound events in our past or to our future.