Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar created a black hole that would later turn out to be fairly scientifically accurate.

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Wired has a fun piece about physicist and ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way could be home to as many as 100 million stellar-mass black holes, but much about these giant celestial phenomena remains a mystery. Now, an astronomer believes it may ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar was a phenomenon in 2014. Set in the future, Earth has been struck by a global crop blight. Former NASA pilot... Why 'Interstellar' has the most accurate black hole in ...

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A proposed interstellar mission envisions sending a gram-scale nanocraft, propelled by a laser-driven lightsail to a nearby black hole, achieving approximately one-third the speed of light. Upon ...

Mars. From forming black holes to phantom dark energy, discover the cosmic mysteries astronomers uncovered last year.

A distant black hole has just put on one of the brightest and most violent shows in the known universe, tearing apart a ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...