"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer Lorena Hernández-García.

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?" ...

We all know that black holes can devour stars, rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star ...

The significance behind the finding is not only in the sheer size of the black hole, but also its growth, which has challenged existing models on the development of black holes. This black hole ...

Using the mathematics of Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity, called general relativity, scientists can model the interior of a black hole.The problem is that, when they do this, general relativity ...

Digital impression of white hole (Philip Drury, University of Sheffield) In the study, scientists used a simplified theoretical model of a black hole called a planar black hole model, which ...

Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...