Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the ...

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

oft-invisible monster dubbed "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole—which has the same mass as some 1 million suns—betrayed its presence when it was ...

Physicists have built the first ever black hole bomb, a long-theorised phenomenon where energy is boosted by a black hole and trapped by surrounding mirrors until an explosion occurs. Thankfully ...

She believes it opens up new ways to find roaming black holes. It may be the first of many hidden monsters waiting to be revealed. Advisory Alert: It has come to our attention that certain ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole — one with no star orbiting it. It’s “the only one so far,” says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space ...

An experimental setup mimics a “black hole bomb” first theorized in 1971. The spinning cylinder with circuitry is true to the original idea, showing that it can be plausible. Electrical waves ...