New research challenges the long-accepted notion of singularities in black holes — the point where physics allegedly breaks ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

Astronomers gain a greater understanding of black hole singularity. Experimental evidence for a finite core could illuminate ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

Astronomers using NASA’s IXPE satellite have finally cracked a cosmic mystery—how X-rays are produced in the energetic jets ...

On each pass, the star kicks out one Jupiter's worth of mass from the black hole's disk. A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of ...

The shredded stellar remnants are pulled into a circular orbit around the black hole. This generates shocks and outflows with high temperatures that can be seen in ultraviolet and visible light.

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that appears to be "waking up" after being inactive for decades. The black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728—a distant galaxy 300 million ...

Hic sunt leones," remarks Stefano Liberati, one of the authors of the paper and director of IFPU. The phrase refers to the hypothetical singularity ...

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 ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole — one with no star orbiting it. It’s “the only one so far,” says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space ...