What’s strange is that the resulting black hole lies in the intermediate-mass rang (around ... merged in another universe can pass through the throat of a wormhole and be detected in our universe as a ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar was a phenomenon in 2014. Set in the future, Earth has been struck by a global crop blight.

And so, one team of scientists are now running with the theory that it could be a sign of a wormhole linking our universe with a parallel one. Led by Dr Qi Lai of the University of Chinese Academy of ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

An interstellar mission to a black hole may sound impossibly bold, yet a new concept by astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University outlines how a tiny, laser‑propelled probe could make the trip ...

What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse? What lies beyond the boundary of a black hole? The universe seems to be rotating, and if ...

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 ...

Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv University astronomers observed a flare caused when a star falls onto a black ...

The drama began in 2024, when a sky-scanning telescope known as the Zwicky Transient Facility picked up a sudden brightening in the night sky. But there was a twist: the object, now named AT2024tvd, ...

For decades, scientists have known black holes often come in pairs. These binary systems feature a black hole locked in a gravitational dance with a nearby object—usually a star, neutron star, or ...