Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

That means nothing can sit still around a rotating black hole, including the "plates" that these cosmic titans feed from.

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has discovered lumps of particles within a black hole jet in ...

When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...

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A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

When 25-year-old Sadie Bartell's world turned upside down, never in her wildest dreams did she think help would come from a global pop star. But that's exactly what happened when Taylor Swift came to ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event, where a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has transformed directly into a black hole, without the usual supernova explosion. The phenomenon ...

The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...

The 35.4-meter acrylic sphere is the crucial component of the core equipment of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory ...

Comes as business leaders accuse the Labour government of having ‘betrayed the nation’ following employer national insurance ...