Sinister Science in Space: Watch the First Tense Trailer for High Life
In space, anything goes. Even messed up science experiments.
The Worst Pain in the World, Bendable Phones, and Joshua Tree: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Ten hut, Gizmodo readers! Do you have a New Year’s Resolution you should be working on? Do not answer that rhetorical…
A Star Fell Into a Black Hole, Revealing Its Super-Fast Spin
Scientists have measured a fundamental property of a supermassive black hole—how fast it spins—by measuring a star…
International Space Station Telescope Makes Amazing Observation of Black Hole Eating Stuff
A telescope on the International Space Station made an incredible high-resolution measurement of the x-rays resulting…
Physicists Spot Four Black Hole Collisions, Including the Largest One Ever Recorded
Physicists have spotted four new instances of black holes colliding and sending their gravitational waves toward the…
What Happens When Two Black Holes Collide?
On September 14, 2015, signals from one of the Universe’s most mind-boggling, powerful events produced the tiniest…
How the Universe Ends
Somewhere between a second and a millennium from now, you will die. Your body and all of its parts will cease…
NASA's Flagship X-Ray Telescope Back Online After Last Week's Safe Mode
One of NASA’s flagship telescopes, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, went into safe mode last week following gyroscope…
New Supernova Discovery Explains Landmark Neutron Star Collision
August 17, 2017 heralded one of the most important observations in astronomy’s history: two neutron stars colliding,…
Astronomers Spot a Black Hole Sucking Up an Earth-Size Clump of Matter
You might think of black holes as enormous vacuum cleaners, sucking in all the matter and light that ventures too…
Black Holes Might Temporarily Bring Dead Stars Back to Life
What happens when a dead star meets a black hole? The answer appears to be a brief zombie awakening, according to a new…
Facebook Got Mad at Us, Samsung Note 9, and Ajit Pai: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
First, the bad news: Sunday is the anniversary of the disastrous white supremacist Unite the Right rally in…
The Only Known Sound in Space Is This 'Singing' Black Hole
Everyone knows there is no sound in space. After all, a sound wave requires a medium, like air or water, to travel…
Supermassive Black Hole Stretches Starlight, Proving Einstein Right Again
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is magnificent. For a hundred years, it has consistently predicted all…
See the South Pole Message That Alerted Astronomers to the Cosmic-Ray-Spewing Blazar
Today, scientists made a huge announcement: Telescopes around the world recorded a source of mysterious,…
Scientists Find Stronger Evidence for New Kind of Black Hole
We’ve seen supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies tearing stars to shreds. We’ve detected the energy wave…
Black Holes Can Maybe Turn Into Dark Matter Lasers
Black holes are already some of the strangest objects in the universe, and scientists sometimes dream up some pretty…
10 Years of Data Appears to Show Black Hole Eating a Star
When a star meets the gravity of a black hole, chaos ensues.
What Are These Mystery Puffs Near the Galactic Center?
The center of our galaxy is an extreme place that holds all sorts of mysteries. Among those enigmas are what appear to…
Colliding Neutron Stars Likely Birthed a Baby Black Hole
On August 17, 2017, astronomers witnessed an extraordinary celestial event: a collision between two ultra-dense neutron…