Black holes always seem to get theHollywood treatment despite the fact that their cousins, neutron stars, claim the highest-density matter astronomers can observe directly. That’s because black holes ...

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Australian astronomers have built themselves one of the world’s best ‘wide-field’ digital cameras, with chips that now outstrip photographic plates, according to the Federal Minister for Education, ...

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Observations of a supermassive black hole located 55 million light-years away from Earth have revealed something completely unexpected: Its magnetic field has flipped. The black hole, dubbed M87* ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. For many years, astronomers have looked forward to a coming revolution ...

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One can only imagine what Grote Reber’s neighbors thought when, in 1937, the amateur radio enthusiast erected in his yard a nearly 10-meter-wide shallow bowl of sheet metal, perched atop an adjustable ...

In this video from the 2017 Intel HPC Developer Conference, Dr. Joshua L. Willis from the California Institute of Technology and Dan Stanzione from TACC present: Gravitational Waves: The Role of ...