Ever since humans first gazed up at the night sky, the Universe has filled us with awe and wonder. Lately, however, it's also ...
NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has heard the song a star-quaking red giant sings to its partner black hole.
Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...
A high-altitude balloon telescope has revealed new patterns in X-rays emitted near the black hole Cygnus X-1. These signals ...
Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...
Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...
Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...
A cosmic mystery surrounding a black hole some 270 million light-years from the Milky Way is deepening. Now, the black hole has once again demonstrated strange features that teams of astronomers ...
On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...
The team responsible for the Oscar-nominated visual effects at the center of Christopher Nolan’s epic, Interstellar, have turned science fiction into science fact by providing new insights into the ...