Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.
Black holes capture the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts because they represent the most extreme gravitational ...
NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...
Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you were unlucky enough to be struck by a primordial black hole, its shock ...
Researchers have created a fully relativistic model showing that gravitational waves might carry hidden clues about dark ...
Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...
In a major leap forward, scientists, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), have captured the sharpest images yet of distant galactic centers. Using light at a frequency of 345 GHz, they’ve peered ...
How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...
Researchers say they have discovered what may be the closest known black hole to Earth, which they have dubbed "the Unicorn." The black hole is about three times the mass of our sun, meaning ...