Heaviest Black Hole Yet Could Swallow Our Entire Solar System
The black hole in the nearby galaxy M87 weighs in at 6.6 billion suns, making it the local universe’s heavyweight champ. It’s big enough to swallow our solar system in one gulp. “This is the biggest black hole in the nearby universe,” said astronomer Karl Gebhardt of the University of Texas at Austin in a…
500,000 High-Def TVs Are Required to View the Largest Digital Image of the Night Sky
Astronomers have released the largest digital image of the night sky ever made—to be mined for future discoveries—and it would apparently take 500,000 high-definition TVs to view it in its full glory. It is actually a collection of millions of images taken since 1998 with a 2.5-metre telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.…
The Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2010
In a year full of major advances, over-hyped findings and controversial studies, it was tough to choose which breakthroughs were the biggest in 2010. So we’ve collected the ones that stood out the most to us. From synthetic life and three-parent embryos to the possibility of a new human ancestor and a habitable exoplanet, here…
