Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...