A recent study in The Astrophysical Journal has revealed critical details about their structure and properties, offering fresh insights into black hole behavior. The corona of a black hole is an ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above ... rightarrow{neutron~star,~or~a~black~hole~(depending~on~size)}\) ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...