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The Earth would become a black hole. For those who want to know more: black holes warp space-time. It is as if they were tearing deep troughs in an imaginary net in which space and time are interwoven ...

Recently, two researchers looked at what would happen if a ship with warp drive tried to get into a black hole. The result is an interesting thought experiment. It might not lead to starship-sized ...

Time feels like it flies by or drags on depending on the intensity of your experiences. So, does that mean aging is merely a ...

Following is the transcript of the video. Narrator: Black holes are some of the most powerful and violent objects in the universe. They can warp space and time and rip entire stars to pieces.

A black hole is one of the most fascinating and mysterious phenomena in the universe.

It is the third time now that the labs' laser instruments have been perturbed by the warping of space-time ... it is a merger of black holes, and once again the energy scales involved are ...

But simple it isn’t. General relativity’s equations fail catastrophically at a black hole’s centre, known as its singularity, where the warping of space-time simply goes off the scale.

They did so by including their warping effects on space-time and by assuming the larger hole had a smooth "surface". The black hole pairing, known as OJ 287, exists about 3.5 billion light-years ...

OK, that was a little click-baity, but then again, so was the announcement this week that a scientist had confirmed Hawking radiation with a lab-grown black hole. It sure got our attention ...