A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding a black hole and releasing powerful bursts of X-rays in the process.

The new TDE, called AT2024tvd, allowed astronomers to pinpoint a wandering supermassive black hole using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, with similar supporting observations from NASA's Chandra X ...

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 ...

Most large and spiral-shaped galaxies have a black hole, but this was difficult to locate. After decades of efforts, astronomers have found evidence suggesting a supermassive black hole in the ...

Invisible Dark: Lone black holes passing through the galaxy should be a pretty common occurrence in the Milky Way, but they are notoriously hard to spot. According to recently published research ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

Scientists have confirmed the first known solitary black hole. It’s a rogue, companionless object drifting through our galaxy. Trump just declared May 8 a national holiday. What’s open and closed?

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black holes at their centers are growing." Astronomers have used the James ...

The chief judge said the bathroom hole represented a figurative black hole that “exerted a gravitational pull” on the student’s natural inquisitiveness. The only evidence before the court ...

Nayib Bukele has won over many aspiring autocrats with his combination of charm and disrespect for the rule of law. On April 14th that heady mixture was on display for his counterpart in the ...

Several years ago, members of the same research team reported the discovery of a mysterious “dark object” moving through the constellation Sagittarius, proposing it might be a lone black hole.

Although this will be the first time Ealy will embody the Civil Rights and Black Muslim movement leader in fiction, he has previously performed live readings of Malcolm X’s words, including in ...