How often do black holes explode? New research refines old calculations, hinting that black hole explosions may be a ...

S ince Russia invaded, Ukraine has each year named a price. After setting the budget, the government publishes the sum by ...

Council bosses have said they are "deeply disappointed" by proposed changes to government funding for the county, which they ...

"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it's dynamic and complex, ...

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured distinctive ringing signals ...

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or quasars, in the distant universe and then studied them with the James Webb ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

Astronomers confirmed an off-center black hole in a dwarf galaxy. It offers clues to how supermassive black holes may form.