I'm sitting on a plane staring at three grainy black-and-white images on my phone. "Real or bogus," I mutter to myself. Real, I decide, and move on to the next trio. I'm on the hunt for newly formed ...

Black Hole Finder asks citizen scientists to identify singularities in telescope images. Black Hole Finder asks citizen scientists to identify singularities in telescope images. is a former weekend ...

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Citizen scientists are invited to use a specialized app to sift through photos captured by powerful telescopes, searching for signs of neutron stars merging. Reading time 2 minutes Thanks to a newly ...

The Dutch Black Hole Consortium, a team dedicated to discovering new black holes, has introduced an innovative app called Black Hole Finder. This free app, available for Android, iOS, and web browsers ...

On Thursday, designer Matt Webb unveiled a new iPhone app called Galactic Compass, which always points to the center of the Milky Way galaxy—no matter where Earth is positioned on our journey through ...