A high-altitude balloon telescope has revealed new patterns in X-rays emitted near the black hole Cygnus X-1. These signals give scientists a clearer picture of how gas and radiation behave in the ...

Uncover the scariest black hole discovery near Earth and the potential danger it poses.

A black hole 400 million times the Sun’s mass has erupted, sending a record-breaking gamma-ray flare towards Earth. The event ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...

A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed up by a pulp-era sci-fi writer. Which, ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025 that may ...

A small but incredibly fast unwanted guest is about to swing past Earth at the speed of light. Yeah, this is the tiniest ...

The goal of the Thirty Metre Telescope project is to peer deeper into the cosmos than ever before, studying black holes, ...

BEIJING, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- A series of scientific satellites launched by China have achieved major discoveries in fields ...

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...