The universe holds countless mysteries, yet few capture the imagination quite like black holes. These cosmic monsters have spawned decades of scientific speculation and popular fascination. You’ve likely wondered what happens if someone were to cross that infamous boundary called the event horizon. Recent discoveries in 2025 have brought us closer than ever to understanding ...
Imagine a mysterious force making up approximately 68% of everything that exists, yet remaining completely invisible and impossible to directly detect. This isn’t science fiction – it’s one of the greatest puzzles in modern physics, a cosmic enigma that’s keeping scientists awake at night and challenging everything we thought we knew about the universe. Dark ...
They start as quiet monsters, swallowing light and time, and end as the most honest questions in physics. For decades, black holes were places where our equations went to hide; now they’re where we go looking for answers. New observations of early, oversized black holes and crisp gravitational-wave signals have forced scientists to rethink what ...
Stand outside on a cold night and it feels like the sky has an edge, a silent border where things stop. Astronomers used to talk about the solar system the same way – planets here, emptiness beyond. Then telescopes began pulling back the curtain, revealing a broad province of the deep where frozen worlds drift ...
Astronomers were confused when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first saw strange, free-floating pairs of Jupiter-sized objects in 2023. These strange cosmic objects, called “JuMBOs” (Jupiter-mass binary objects), seemed to go against the usual ideas about how planets form because they didn’t have a parent star and were drifting through space in tight gravitational ...
A cosmic leviathan stirs across the great, quiet expanse of the early universe. About 12 billion years old, a supermassive black hole has unleashed a jet of energy so strong it defies understanding illuminated not by starlight but by the fading echo of the Big Bang itself. Three times the width of our Milky Way, ...
