It’s an insane day for space stuff! Stephen Hawking is boldly claiming ‘there are no black holes‘* - and this from the chap who proposed Hawking radiation :P Astronomers have discovered an ‘ultramassive’ black hole: one of the most powerful objects ever found. The ‘cosmic web’ - filaments of gas connecting galaxies across the darkest […]
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Gamma-ray bursts get even more sci-fi
Gamma-ray bursts really are the stuff of science fiction. And something of a mystery.They’re the most impressive explosions the universe has been able to offer after the tremendous effort of the Big Bang. If one happened anywhere near Earth (and by n…