The Indian Ocean "gravity hole" is a region where Earth's mass is reduced, leading to weak gravitational pull, ...
The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.
The ground may feel steady underfoot, but the planet is always in motion. While satellites and sensors have mapped the surface in fine detail, what lies beneath remains largely unknown. The crust, a ...
A balloon-borne telescope has captured one of the most precise glimpses yet of the chaotic environment around a black hole.
The gravitational wave observatory LIGO has returned its second set of results, featuring two light-weight black holes perfect for making detectable gravitational waves. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...
Why it's incredible: Evidence suggests it could be the greatest known impact crater on Earth. The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles ...