If you fell into a black hole, you might expect to die instantly. But in fact your fate would be far stranger than that. We go inside a New York City lab developing new tech to increase IVF ...

Several years ago, members of the same research team reported the discovery of a mysterious “dark object” moving through the constellation Sagittarius, proposing it might be a lone black hole.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For decades, astronomers believed all compact objects like neutron stars and black holes received violent “natal kicks” during their formation. That theory just suffered a fatal ...

A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled scientists, a study said Friday.

In late March, the Society of Professional Journalists bestowed the Utah Legislature with its notorious Black Hole Award, an annual dishonor that recognizes government institutions for “heinous ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Supermassive black holes can strip subgiant stars of their outer layers, leaving behind dense helium cores. These cores, in close orbit around the black hole ...

Doing the 92 is Daniel Storey’s odyssey to every English football league club in a single season. This is club 76/92. The best way to follow his journey and read all of the previous pieces is by ...

3D rendering of a rapidly spinning black hole’s accretion disk and a resulting black hole-powered jet. Credit: Ore Gottlieb et al. (2024) Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and ...

Black holes, the densest objects in the universe, eat up anything that comes too close, even light. Is there anything left inside these behemoths that could reveal what they devoured in the first ...

Credit: ESO/C. Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food in a lively new image from the Very Large Telescope.

Also known as supermassive black holes, these cosmic monsters can be millions to billions of times more massive than our Sun. They are typically found at the centres of most large galaxies ...