Nasa's take on a popular question, driven by the Discover supercomputer. There are multiple runthroughs, covering first the simple video then a full explanation, a deep dive into some of the details,... continue reading

posted by noims 6 months 2 weeks ago • 73 views • 4:20

From YouTube, "Here in the Kurzgesagt labs, we test very important ideas to see what happens when you blow things up or play with black holes. Many of you suggested that we look into an idea that sounds... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 2 weeks ago • 89 views • 10:55

Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 6 months 1 week ago • 225 views • 9:55

From Youtube, "Black holes are the most powerful and extreme things in the universe and they are wildly weird and complicated. What would happen if you fell inside one and what are they really?"

posted by w1ndex 3 years 7 months ago • 235 views • 12:15

From Youtube, "Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent things in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter but as massive as stars. And they owe their existence... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 5 years 2 weeks ago • 766 views • 8:41

So you want to visit a black hole? Before you do, here's one piece of advice from NASA.

posted by noims 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 111 views • 2:40

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our Milky Way galaxy (SgrA*) finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity,... continue reading

posted by eric3579 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 332 views • 5:24

Last year LIGO announced the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes. The science world went a little crazy. Only a few weeks ago a new rumour emerged: that LIGO had, for the... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 152 views • 15:51

YouTube description: Black holes are scary things. But they also might reveal the true nature of the universe to us. (via laughingsquid.com, H/T @eric3579)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months ago • 403 views • 10:13

Scientists have JUST published this new observation. On January 4th, 2017 they detected the merger of two black holes 3 billion light-years away. This marks the furthest detection they've been able to... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 508 views • 5:02

Is it a bird? A plane? A supernova? No! It turned out to be something else! We've also now studied the weather on a gas giant exoplanet!

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 200 views • 4:47

One thing I should point out is that Mr. Manley consistently gets Karl Schwarzschild's name wrong. It's Schwarz Schild (black shield) and pronounced more like shield (except the d is a t sound and it's... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,050 views • 8:00

WooHoo! Hank said Washington State! YouTube: Last week, it was announced that we've detected gravitational waves on Earth. Now, Hank explains what that means for the future and why it's such a huge deal.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 9 months 1 week ago • 564 views • 4:39

The sound of the collision from a billion light-years away is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago.

posted by blacklotus90 8 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 778 views • 4:36

The team at kurzgesagt explain black holes, or at least, as much as we know about them... the mysterious, weird, terrifying bastards they are!

posted by ChaosEngine 8 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 228 views • 5:56

"But the black hole wouldn't stop with just you ... "

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 4 months 1 week ago • 641 views • 3:38