New gravitational ‘superhighway’ system is discovered in the Solar System

A new superhighway network running through the Solar System has been discovered by astronomers, and it could speed up space travel in the future.  Researchers from the University of California San Diego looked at the orbits of bodies in our Solar System and computed how they fit together and interacted. The highways allow space rocks … Read more

New gravitational ‘superhighway’ system discovered in the Solar System

A new superhighway network running through the Solar System has been discovered by astronomers, and it could speed up space travel in the future.  Researchers from the University of California San Diego looked at the orbits of bodies in our Solar System and computed how they fit together and interacted. The highways allow space rocks … Read more

Monster black hole 150 times heavier than the Sun detected using gravitational waves

Astronomers have detected a monster black hole 150 times heavier than our Sun as a result of the energy wave produced when two smaller black holes merged.  Researchers using the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors spotted a wave with eight times the energy of the Sun coming from 17 billion light years away. This energetic … Read more