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Astronomers Find A Star Cluster Filled With Numerous Small Black Holes

Astronomers Find A Star Cluster Filled With Numerous Small Black Holes

Though most star clusters have a black hole at the center of their systems, astronomers were surprised to see a new cluster that actually had several small black holes in the middle rather than one large example of the mysterious space phenomenon. According to Space.com, researchers came across the discovery after studying the movement of […]

3y ago

Trust In Media At All-Time Low, Research Shows

Trust In Media At All-Time Low, Research Shows

Trust in traditional news media has hit an all-time low, according to new research from the communications firm Edelman. Per Axios, Edelman’s annual trust barometer found that slightly more than a quarter of the American public still trust traditional news organizations. The firm’s poll showed that 56 percent of Americans agree that “Journalists and reporters […]

3y ago

One Of The Largest Presumed Black Holes In The Universe Doesn’t Seem To Exist, Sparking Astronomical Mystery

One Of The Largest Presumed Black Holes In The Universe Doesn’t Seem To Exist, Sparking Astronomical Mystery

Scientists have expressed their confusion that a presumed black hole — which was estimated to be so big that it was characterized as “supermassive” and considered one of the largest known examples of the mysterious space phenomenon in the universe — appears to not exist after all. According to Science Alert, the specific region of […]

4y ago

Donald Trump Uses Twitter To Divert Attention Away From Damaging Stories, New Study Finds

Donald Trump Uses Twitter To Divert Attention Away From Damaging Stories, New Study Finds

A new study published Tuesday in Nature Communications established that President Donald Trump has used Twitter to divert attention away from stories that were potentially harmful to his presidency. Prior research has shown that journalists rely on Twitter to generate stories. When he launched his first presidential campaign in 2016, Trump successfully used the microblogging […]

4y ago

Bill Nye Encourages Fans To Vote Biden/Harris, Says ‘Science Is On The Ballot’ This Election Year

Bill Nye Encourages Fans To Vote Biden/Harris, Says ‘Science Is On The Ballot’ This Election Year

Bill Nye shared some advice with his 3 million Instagram followers in his latest post on Wednesday afternoon. He held up a piece of paper printed with the last names of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris spelled out using squares that looked similar to those from a periodic table, with the hashtag “Vote For Science” […]

4y ago

NASA Confirms That Moon Has Water In Major Breakthrough

NASA Confirms That Moon Has Water In Major Breakthrough

NASA confirmed in a press release that in a major discovery, water has been definitely found on the moon. Researchers said that there appears to be “water traps” on the moon that keep the liquid stable, and there could likely be water distributed across the entire surface of the moon, rather than just in colder […]

4y ago

Space Debris Is Becoming A Major Threat To Satellites And Extraterrestrial Travel

Space Debris Is Becoming A Major Threat To Satellites And Extraterrestrial Travel

Space debris is quickly becoming a major threat for satellites and extraterrestrial travel — and could have fatal implications for the latter if the issue is not stopped. According to NPR, the International Space Station (ISS) almost came into contact with space junk this past week for the third time this year. The debris usually […]

4y ago

Physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Wants To Die By Launching Himself Into A Black Hole

Physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Wants To Die By Launching Himself Into A Black Hole

Famed scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson made a startling confession earlier this week, saying that if he could choose his own death, he would hope to get sucked into a black hole. Much of the space phenomenon remains a mystery to scientists, and Tyson expressed his hope that falling into one would provide some answers for […]

4y ago

Black Holes Are ‘Hiding Movies Of The Universe’ In Their Rings, According To Harvard Scientists

Black Holes Are ‘Hiding Movies Of The Universe’ In Their Rings, According To Harvard Scientists

Researchers at Harvard University have claimed that they believe black holes contain “movies” of the universe in the numerous bright rings that circle around the border of the mysterious space phenomena. According to New Scientist, Michael Johnson, a radio astronomer working on the research, realized that black holes may contain these movies after a photograph […]

4y ago

Astronomers Stunned After A Black Hole Appeared To Vanish For 40 Days Before Returning

Astronomers Stunned After A Black Hole Appeared To Vanish For 40 Days Before Returning

A new mystifying event in space is puzzling astronomers around the world after a black hole — or at least the ring of light around it — appeared to vanish completely for 40 full days before returning once more, according to a new paper published yesterday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Though black holes are […]

4y ago

Astronomers Discover A New Massive Type Of Space Explosion: ‘There Is A New Beast Out There’

Astronomers Discover A New Massive Type Of Space Explosion: ‘There Is A New Beast Out There’

Astronomers recently declared that they have discovered a new type of star explosion in space. The findings come after scientists analyzed a mysterious explosion in 2018 and realized that it was an entirely different type of star combustion, coming in at 10 times larger than normal supernovas. According to Science Alert, astronomers have named the […]

4y ago

Dogs Also Go Through An Angsty Teenage Stage, Claims New Study

Dogs Also Go Through An Angsty Teenage Stage, Claims New Study

Man’s best friend may be ever more similar to humans than previously believed. According to new research studies from the United Kingdom, dogs reportedly go through an angsty phase when they hit adolescence, proving that the beloved animal is not unlike the average human teenager. According to Science Alert, the research team looked at 378 […]

4y ago

Scientists Discover Black Hole So Close To Earth, It Can Be Seen With The Naked Eye

Scientists Discover Black Hole So Close To Earth, It Can Be Seen With The Naked Eye

Astronomers are celebrating after discovering a new black hole in space that is not only the closest example of the phenomenon to Earth, but is also technically visible to the naked eye. According to National Geographic, the new black hole is located in the star system HR 6819, meaning that it is only 1,011 light-years […]

4y ago

Scientists Discover ‘UFO-Like’ Creature In Australian Waters, Potentially World’s Longest Animal

Scientists Discover ‘UFO-Like’ Creature In Australian Waters, Potentially World’s Longest Animal

Scientists have discovered what could be the longest animal ever seen off the coast of Australia, reports The Guardian. The animal is a siphonophore, measured at an estimated 154 feet. “Siphonophores are deep-sea predators made up of many small clones that act together as one and spread out like a single long string in the […]

4y ago

12,000 People Apply To Be NASA’s Next Astronauts, First Woman To Moon Will Be Part Of Class

12,000 People Apply To Be NASA’s Next Astronauts, First Woman To Moon Will Be Part Of Class

For the first time in four years, NASA opened applications for new astronauts. On Thursday, April 2, the space program announced that more than 12,000 applications were received. It was the second-highest number of applicants ever sent to NASA, according to ABC News. People from every U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and four U.S. […]

4y ago

Researchers Discover Bacterium That Can Break Down Hard-To-Recycle & Toxic Plastic

Researchers Discover Bacterium That Can Break Down Hard-To-Recycle & Toxic Plastic

Plastic pollution in the environment is continuing to increase, prompting scientists and researchers to find new ways to get rid of the material, which can take centuries to decompose naturally. A recent study, published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, discovered that a bacterium exists that feeds on toxic plastic, using it as a food […]

4y ago

David Dobrik Said His Viral Science Experiment Got Him In Trouble With His Neigbbors

David Dobrik Said His Viral Science Experiment Got Him In Trouble With His Neigbbors

YouTuber David Dobrik opened up about how his infamous Elephant Toothpaste science experiment got him into hot water with his Los Angeles, California neighbors, according to Seventeen. This experiment, which he and his friends conducted in his backyard, involved a massive dry foam explosion. The experiment got its name because of the aqua color of […]

4y ago

Gamma Rays May Move Faster Than Light, Causing Them To Go ‘Backwards In Time,’ Say Researchers

Gamma Rays May Move Faster Than Light, Causing Them To Go ‘Backwards In Time,’ Say Researchers

Two years ago, researchers made the amazing discovery that in some specific instances in space, gamma-ray burst pulses repeated themselves in a way that made it seem as if they were going backwards in time. Astronomers now believe that they might have finally figured out the reason behind the mind-boggling phenomenon: the gamma rays are […]

4y ago

Scientists Detect Biggest Explosion In Galaxy Since The Big Bang: ‘This One Is Really, Really Massive’

Scientists Detect Biggest Explosion In Galaxy Since The Big Bang: ‘This One Is Really, Really Massive’

Astronomers detected an enormous explosion in a galaxy more than 390 light-years away, with scientists claiming the eruption is the largest explosion ever recorded since the Big Bang. In fact, the burst was five times as powerful as the previous largest explosion in space ever recorded. “We’ve seen outbursts in the centers of galaxies before […]

4y ago

Earth Has Another ‘Moon’ As Scientists Spot Car-Sized Space Rock Captured By Our Planet’s Gravity

Earth Has Another ‘Moon’ As Scientists Spot Car-Sized Space Rock Captured By Our Planet’s Gravity

Earth now has another moon, in a manner of speaking — a car-sized chunk of space rock has been captured by Earth’s gravitational pull and is now regularly orbiting the planet, just like the moon we’re all familiar with has been doing for billions of years. This one, however, has only been with us for […]

4y ago

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