The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

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An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

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About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

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A black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns—10,000 times heavier than the one at the center of the Milky Way —has been discovered around 5 billion light-years from Earth. It may be the ...

Exploring the BTZ black hole in (2+1)-dimensional gravity took me down a fascinating rabbit hole, connecting ideas I never ...