Once again, it turns out that renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was right. Oh, and Albert Einstein, too. Scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a gravitational wave, a ripple in space-time that is caused by extremely energetic processes, such as the merger of …
Read More »One of the biggest black holes ever was discovered — with a mass of 35 billion suns
Astronomers have discovered what they say is among the most massive black holes ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the theoretical upper limit of what’s possible in the universe, and is 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at the centre of our own galaxy. It’s also 35 …
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