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The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

A gravitational-wave merger detected in 2019 appears to involve a “small” black hole candidate paired with a companion mass of 2.6 times the Sun—an...

Gravitational WavesNeutron StarsBlack Holes

Have Gravitational Waves Been Discovered?!?

PBS Space Time · 2 min read

Gravitational waves—Einstein’s last major, direct prediction from General Relativity—are still waiting for a confirmed first detection, but the...

General RelativityGravitational WavesQuadrupole Moment

Black Hole Swarms | Space Time

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

The Milky Way’s core appears to host a dense swarm of stellar-mass black holes—likely hundreds, possibly thousands—based on a Chandra X-ray...

Black Hole SwarmsQuiescent X-ray BinariesDynamical Friction

At What Point Does Spacetime Become Quantum?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

The central question is when spacetime stops behaving classically and starts showing quantum behavior—and how to test that without building a...

Quantum GravityQuantum-Classical TransitionCavendish Experiment

The Future of Space Telescopes

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Space telescopes are moving beyond the old bottleneck of launching large, rigid mirrors and lenses by turning diffraction and even “impossible”...

Star ShadeCoronagraphyDiffraction Optics

Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

A fast-moving rumor tied to a specific gamma-ray burst and a nearby galaxy claims LIGO has detected gravitational waves from a neutron star–neutron...

LIGO DetectionsNeutron Star MergersGamma-Ray Bursts

Could LIGO Find MASSIVE Alien Spaceships?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO could, in principle, pick up the “wake” of a planet-mass alien spacecraft accelerating to near-light speed—but...

Gravitational WavesLIGO SensitivityRAMAcraft

Can Space Time Remember?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Gravitational waves may leave permanent “memory” in spacetime—tiny, lasting changes in how distances and motions line up after the wave has passed....

Gravitational MemoryGeneral RelativityLISA Mission

Citizen Science + Zero-Point Challenge Answer | Space Time

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Citizen science remains a practical engine for astronomy and physics because it scales human pattern recognition and monitoring time—tasks that are...

Citizen ScienceAmateur AstronomyZooniverse