PARIS, France — A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled scientists, a study said ...

Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, according to new research. In the extremely early universe, primordial black ...

After five years and four seasons of college basketball, Kaitlyn Chen ’24 is a national champion. Chen started every game of the season for the Huskies, who dominated South Carolina 82–59 on Sunday to ...

One of the common misconceptions about black holes is that they devour not only matter, but also the history of that matter. So when a black hole forms, you can only guess how it came to be. That ...

“Almost £10 million will be staked illegally on the unsafe, growing gambling black market at this year’s Grand National, fuelling crime, undermining player protection measures, while sucking ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope. "Every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole, but the exact ...

"It was a completely serendipitous discovery." Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, such as carbon and oxygen.

Astronomers have discovered a hidden supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud by tracing hypervelocity stars ejected from it using Gaia satellite data. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: ...

Hess’ foray into big-time franchise filmmaking reunites him with Jack Black, the star of his 2006 slapstick adventure, Nacho Libre – and no one can accuse Black of half-assing his way through ...

For the prisoners, a 'black hole of human rights' awaits, according to monitoring groups. CECOT, built in 2023, has been heralded by Bukele as a superweapon in the war on gang violence.

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main types of black hole; stellar mass and supermassive black holes ...