The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

One of the papers, published last year, describes the simulated results of quakes on the surface of neutron stars before they ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...

An unlucky star came into contact with a roaming black hole and was ripped apart in a peculiar celestial occurrence.

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a supermassive black hole. Normally, supermassive black holes live at the ...

The Milky Way has millions of small black holes and one giant supermassive black hole at its center. But does the galaxy have ...

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that appears to be "waking up" after being inactive for decades. The black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728—a distant galaxy 300 million ...

An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / M. Zamani The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a phenomenon once thought ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have spotted the largest twin jets ever seen erupting from a black hole. The jets stretch for around 23 million light-years, well beyond the limits of their host ...

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