Supermassive black holes can render exoplanets uninhabitable at great distances

The thinking around exoplanet habitability is mostly concerned with a planet's distance from its star. Too close, and any ...

The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes. Scientists Now Know Why

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s ...

An explanation for the massive black holes the JWST found in the early universe

One of the most puzzling findings from the JWST's observations of the early universe is the size of black holes. According to ...
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A sleeping supermassive black hole just roared back to life and erupted like a cosmic volcano — radio telescopes caught its jets firing across deep space

Somewhere in the distant universe, a supermassive black hole that had gone quiet for millions of years has switched back on.
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The Twilight Sad Share New Song “Waiting for the Phone Call” (Feat. The Cure’s Robert Smith)

Scotland’s The Twilight Sad have returned with “Waiting for the Phone Call,” their first new single in six years. It features Robert Smith of The Cure on guitar. Smith has been a big champion of the ...
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11 Best Songs of the Week: Courtney Barnett, Mitski, The Twilight Sad, American Football, and More

Subscriptions and back issues are still 50% off. Find out more here. In recent weeks we posted interviews with Voxtrot, Felsmann & Tiley, Howling Bells, actor Adam Godley, Magdalena Bay (a My Firsts), ...
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Scientists May Have Found a New Way to Detect Dark Matter—By Listening to Black Holes

Scientists looking for dark matter have looked almost everywhere they could imagine: deep underground detectors, powerful particle colliders, precision telescopes, and maps of the universe itself. Yet ...