How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...
The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...
A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.
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 ...
Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...
Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...
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 ...
How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out.
As you can probably imagine by this point, falling into a black hole would be terrifying. "If you fell into a black hole, the gravitational pull would stretch you out in a process called ...
The 35.4-meter acrylic sphere is the crucial component of the core equipment of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory ...