The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

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Falling into a black hole means facing extreme stretching, known as spaghettification, due to immense tidal forces. While ...

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Demanding “impact” is an attempt to re-engineer the profession, questioning the entire role of academia in society. If actively and aggressively pursued, the “impact agenda” presents a significant ...

For nearly three decades, astronomers have interpreted the faint luminosity of certain distant explosive stars as a sign of ...

On Nov. 2, Kip Thorne took the stage at Harvey Mudd College’s Galileo Auditorium to recount his 50 year odyssey of making ...

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With next-generation telescopes, they hope to spot telltale signs of alternative physics ...

The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology ...