A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...

Some of the darkest objects in the universe are also among its brightest beacons, lighting up entire galaxies while their ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...

A team of computational astrophysicists has developed a simulation that explains the behavior of matter around black holes.

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...

A flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds of more than 37,000 miles per SECOND, reveals new research. X-ray space telescopes spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole.

Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...

Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...

A new mathematical model of a wormhole suggests that two black holes can be “cut and pasted.” Cut and paste is an official ...