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

The Milky Way has millions of small black holes and one giant supermassive black hole at its center. But does the galaxy have ...

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

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

An international team of astronomers has successfully demonstrated a new technique to observe especially faint black holes by ...

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

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

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 ...

An experimental setup mimics a “black hole bomb” first theorized in 1971. The spinning cylinder with circuitry is true to the ...

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