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An Immense Source Of Clean, Efficient Energy Might Lie At The Edge Of The Solar System

September 30, 2019 admin black holes, clean power, cleantech news, space

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:01:32 +0000

Actually using a black hole for something other than mass destruction may sound farfetched, but in 2016, Stephen Hawking figured that a black hole with the mass of a mountain could provide for all of humanity’s energy needs. Considering that a black hole of 5 Earth masses is around the size of an orange, one as massive as a mountain would be minuscule

Our Solar System Might Have a Black Hole From the Dawn of the Universe

September 27, 2019 admin black holes, cosmology, gravity, planet 9, planet nine, primordial black holes, tech-science

Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 17:56:13 +0000

This alternate explanation for ‘Planet Nine,’ proposed by scientists in a new paper, poses some fundamental questions like: Should we visit it?

Three Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Crash Course, NASA Says

September 26, 2019 admin black holes, citizen science, galaxies, mergers, nasa, supermassive black hole, supermassive black holes, tech-science

Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:44:03 +0000

“This is the strongest evidence yet found for such a triple system of actively feeding supermassive black holes.”

Our Galaxy’s Black Hole Suddenly Lit Up and Nobody Knows Why

August 13, 2019 admin arxiv, black holes, dust cloud, galaxy, milky way, sagittarius a*, star, supermassive black holes, tech-science, ucla

Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:12:34 +0000

In May, the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way become 75 times brighter in just two hours.

This Tabletop Gravitational Wave Detector Could Shed Light on Dark Matter

July 17, 2019 admin astronomy, black holes, dark matter, physics, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Becky Fereira| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:23:06 +0000

LIGO, the observatory that detected the first gravitational wave, stretches for miles. The Levitated Sensor Detector would fit in your living room.

Here’s How Scientists Plan to Watch Supermassive Black Hole Collisions

May 24, 2019 admin athena, black hole mergers, black holes, galaxies, gravitational wave observatories, gravitational waves, Lisa, supermassive black hole, supermassive black holes, tech-science

Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 13:17:17 +0000

“When these objects merge, there is more energy produced than the rest of the universe put together.”