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There have been many great films based on DC Comics, but even some of those have inconsistencies that are frustrating to watch.
Dandadan's protagonist is a talented psychic, but even she doesn't stand a chance against these powerful characters.
In Chris Sheridan's Resident Alien, Judah Prehn stars as Max Hawthorne, and he is anything but an ordinary child; rather, a force of nature packed with sarcasm, intelligence, and inquisitive zeal.
Twitter was a bird sound, not a digital colosseum that rhymed with your ex. We didn’t make, judge, or keep friends based on ideological leanings. And people went to movies on vague trailers, not ...
Now, in a preprint uploaded to the arXiv server, LVK scientists have provided evidence that there’s a new heavyweight champion—a merger that produced a new 255-solar-mass black hole.
Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem. At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive ...
The Hubble Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory saw an enigmatic intermediate-mass black hole lighting up in X-rays, potentially revealing a way of finding more of them in the future.
This so-called tidal disruption event is the best way to spot these middle-mass black holes. A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant ...
Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv University astronomers observed a flare caused when a star falls onto a black ...
What's at the center of a black hole? Scientists have a sobering answer. First, the good news: Black holes aren’t out to get us. But they do hold unfathomable mysteries.
A death-defying star survived destruction by a ravenous supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption event, and came back to let the cosmic titan take another bite!
The black hole in the middle of a galaxy grows as well during these mergers. Hubble observations uncovered a proportional relationship: the more massive the galaxy, the bigger the black hole.