Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...
Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...
How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...
"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...
NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has heard the song a star-quaking red giant sings to its partner black hole.
Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...
Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...
In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...
A high-altitude balloon telescope has revealed new patterns in X-rays emitted near the black hole Cygnus X-1. These signals ...
Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole within a galaxy just 570 million years after the Big Bang. Part of a class of ...