Articles for tag: astrophysics, Black Holes, cosmology, Stephen Hawking, theory of everything

8 Stunning Facts About Stephen Hawking's The Theory of Everything

8 Stunning Facts About Stephen Hawking’s The Theory of Everything

Jan Otte

You probably think you know what is all about. Perhaps you imagine it’s just another physics textbook filled with complex equations and dry scientific jargon. You might even believe it’s too complicated for everyday understanding. Think again. Hawking’s masterpiece reveals mind-bending truths about reality that will reshape how you see the universe forever. Stephen Hawking’s ...

This artist’s impression shows dust forming in the environment around a supernova explosion. VLT observations have shown that these cosmic dust factories make their grains in a two-stage process, starting soon after the explosion, but continuing long afterwards.

Brighter Than 100 Suns: Scientists Discover Record-Breaking Space Explosions

Suhail Ahmed

Among the most energetic events in the universe’s catalog of violent events since the Big Bang, astronomers have found a new extreme in the class of cosmic explosions. Dubbed extreme nuclear transients (ENTs), these rare, ultra-luminous events were seen in the centers of far-off galaxies where supermassive black holes split apart large stars in catastrophic ...