(Space) Languishing in a galactic nuclei 50 million light years away is a voracious eater, destroying stars, but possibly building its host galaxy...twice the mass of the supermassive black hole that lives in the center of the Milky Way. The NGC 1068 supermassive black hole is incredibly active
(General Sciences) Just bringing up the topic of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) creating a black hole that destroys the Earth might seem unscientific and out of place on a science news website. After all, the subject is generally considered to be out of place in the particle physics community, since ...
(Space) A new simulator has the answer. By definition, one can't see a black hole itself, only its effect on the light of intervening stars. And without some serious equipment, even that's a tall order. Luckily for all us amateur astronomers, Thomas Müller and Daniel Weiskopf of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, have created a simulation that...