In the vast universe, a thrilling 'devouring drama' has been precisely captured by the ESA's XMM-Newton satellite—showing the ...

New fear unlocked: spontaneous black hole combustion implosion. New research predicts that planets may be able to accumulate enough dark matter to suddenly form a black hole in their core. As the ...

Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology ...

Scientists in the United States have discovered the biggest-known merger of two black holes using gravitational wave detectors. The scientific findings from the collision, which was recorded in ...

Measurements of wind in a luminous galactic core reveal dense pockets of gas — a finding that calls for a rethink of how black holes interact with their host galaxies. Read the paper: Structured ...

Dive into a realm of mind-bending theories that postulate black holes as cosmic cradles, potentially birthing new universes.

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...

This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more. This discovery upends conventional wisdom about such tidal disruption ...

The newly discovered ultramassive blackhole lies at the centre of the orange galaxy. Far behind it is a blue galaxy that is being warped into the horseshoe shaped ring by distortions in spacetime ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar ...

A gargantuan black hole hiding in a galaxy 5 billion light years away is the most massive that has been directly measured, more than 10,000 times as massive as the supermassive black hole at the ...

A supermassive black hole tears up a star in a tidal disruption event, pulling gas away and creating an accretion disk. Credit: Ralf Crawford illustration When a star strays too close to a ...