Posted at 02:44PM on December 22, 2021 by Boing Boing\'s Shop @ Boing Boing
Bring romanticism into your home with this beautiful and spooky ceramic skull
You walk into the apartment of an 18th-century detective. What do you see? Of course, there's going to be a comfortable chair, where somebody can sit when they're doing their deductions. There's also probably a fireplace and a lot of strange artifacts and papers scattered ab...
Posted at 12:44PM on October 13, 2020 by Gareth Branwyn @ Boing Boing
Watch a black hole eat a star
Ever seen a black hole chow down on a star? Well, now you can. OK, it's a kind of crummy animated rendering, but the event is still cool and rare.Scientists have watched a rare blast of light from a star as it was eaten by a black hole.The unusual "tidal disruption event" wa...
Posted at 01:34PM on April 29, 2020 by Rob Beschizza @ Boing Boing
Little black hole orbits large black hole
NASA published this animation showing a little black hole (150m solar masses) whirling around a large black hole (18bn solar masses), punching through its accretion disc like an energetic puppy doing donuts through a bead curtain. Two massive black holes are locked in a danc...