Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as singularities, i.e. points where the laws of physics break down. Identifying how ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

Our brain and eyes can play tricks on us—not least when it comes to the expanding hole illusion. A new computational model ...

Researchers have discovered that black holes engage in a cosmic dance and a star-lit meal to vibe with each other in a cosmic ...

Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

with a goal, an assist and a late goal-post that could have tied the game. “But when you dig yourself a hole like that, it’s tough to come out of.” ...

Bryant turned himself into police on July 4 ... that Herman said Bryant came up with the idea of the Black Mamba, a venomous African snake, also the codename for Uma Thurman’s assassin character ...

The delicate silk material of a jacket that had come into Eva Joan, a repair shop in the West Village, had “shattered.” On a recent winter afternoon, Emma Villeneuve, a co-owner of the store ...

By some reckoning, as few as 15 percent of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust clouds. In the early 1980s, NASA sent its Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) into orbit, where for 10 ...

Space experts have uncovered a massive swarm of new supermassive black holes that could blow theories about galaxies wide open. A team of scientists using data from two NASA telescopes revealed ...

In addition to capturing the first images of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is well-suited to observe astrophysical plasma jets and their interaction with strong magnetic fields.