Margaret J. King is a Professional Futurist of The Global Future Forum. Contact her at [email protected], and read similar work at www.thegff.com. Words have meaning and the meaning ...

Rotating black holes (a.k.a. Kerr black holes) have a unique feature: a region outside their outer event horizon called the ergosphere. A black hole is formed when a really massive star runs out of ...

A black hole isn’t the energy sink you might think it is. By hurling matter towards a black hole, it might be possible to get energy out of it. Learn how a spinning black hole could be an energy ...

Black hole collider Artist’s conception of a supermassive black hole. The black hole’s rapid spin and powerful magnetic fields can launch enormous jets of plasma into space, a process that could ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New research challenges what we thought we knew about what happens around black holes. We're used ...