The quest to understand black holes has intrigued scientists and captivated the public imagination for decades. These enigmatic cosmic entities, with their mysterious centers, have long been shrouded ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

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

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

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

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...