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3–4 minutesExtracting Energy From a Black Hole — Recreated in a Lab
A spinning black hole is, in theory, the most powerful battery in the universe. For fifty years, stealing its energy was pure mathematics. Then, in 2026, physicists in Manhattan recreated the trick on a lab bench — no black hole needed. Here’s how they pulled a cosmic secret down to Earth. Read more
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3–4 minutesThe Oldest Quasars in the Universe Shouldn’t Exist
Look far enough into space and you look back in time. In 2026, Euclid found the two most distant quasars ever seen — brilliant beacons from when the cosmos was just 670 million years old. The catch? The giant black holes powering them shouldn’t have existed yet. Here’s the mystery hiding in that ancient light. Read more
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8–12 minutesThe Cosmic Void So Large It Challenges Everything We Know About the Universe
There is a place in the universe 330 million light-years wide where almost nothing exists. No stars, no galaxies, no dark matter — just space. It is called the Boötes cosmic void, and its existence, according to our best models of how the universe works, should be essentially impossible. Here is what it means that… Read more