For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

The author, astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University, places the idea “somewhere between hard engineering and science ...

Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi has proposed a century-long mission to send a “paperclip-sized nanocraft” to a black hole using a ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...

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

While the idea of sending a spacecraft to a black hole dozens of light-years from Earth might sound like something straight ...

It took place some 750 million light-years away, flaring into the detectors of the Zwicky Transient Facility on 7 July. At ...

After years of follow-up study, an international research team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier ...

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

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

Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...