Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...

Just when you think you understand black holes, the James Webb Space Telescope goes and discovers something that no one has ...

In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...

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Gazing up at the stars at night, it’s easy to imagine that space goes on forever. But cosmologists know that the universe actually has limits. First, their best models indicate that space and time had ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever seen, astronomers say.