The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle

Avid black hole enthusiast and S&T Science Editor Camille M. Carlisle explores new research on these enigmatic potholes in spacetime. She’ll dive into the behavior of the leviathans that lurk in galaxies’ hearts and sometimes blaze as quasars, analyze the smaller ones that smash together and make LIGO quiver, and even muse on questions like what lies beyond the event horizon and whether there are marauding black holes in the Milky Way. Because who doesn’t love black holes?

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First Black Holes Maybe Had Supersonic Help

Gas flows in the early universe may have kept clouds from collapsing too soon, enabling them to grow into massive black hole seeds.

By: Camille M. Carlisle September 28, 2017

The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle

LIGO Detects Third Black Hole Merger

Scientists with the gravitational-wave observatory announce another discovery, this time of a black hole merger twice as far away as previous detections.

By: Camille M. Carlisle June 1, 2017

The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle

What’s Inside a Black Hole?

What’s inside a black hole? Wormholes? Alternate universes? If you fell into a black hole, only one thing’s for sure: its tidal forces would kill you.

By: Camille M. Carlisle December 28, 2016