Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# space
Despite their fearsome reputation, we simply wouldn't exist without black holes.
# science
Stephen Hawking hasn't actually solved the black hole information paradox and his latest work raises more questions than it provides answers.
# space
Let's say the worst happened and you've been sucked into a black hole as your body was torn apart. So, what happens to you next?
# space
Black holes are such complex entities that just being trapped in one's gravity creates a cascade of paradoxes...
# space
The bizarre, extremely fast radio bursts astronomers have been detecting might be the result of doomed neutron stars...
# space
Tracking the speed of an event horizon can tell us what a black hole ate, give us a clue as to how it was formed, and whether it survived a major collision.
# 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.
# 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.
# astrobiology
Could advanced alien civilizations turn to artificial black holes to meet their energy needs? And could we detect the emissions from their maws when they feed?