Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

Right field has long been a land of platoon bats, repositioned infielders and patchwork free-agent signings for Cleveland.

NTNU researchers may have found the answer to one of the big, unanswered questions in physics. The universe is full of ...

Dozens of 'wandering' black holes could be tumbling through our galaxy right now, new simulations hint. Their existence could ...

"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from." ...

Astronomical amounts of energy could be extracted from black holes—to build a gigantic bomb, for example. Experts have now ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

For a supermassive black hole to turn into a quasar, something must bring material for it to feed on near to it. This is ...

Supermassive black holes are behemoths that weigh in at several million to billion times the mass of our own sun. Like their ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...