A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

That means nothing can sit still around a rotating black hole, including the "plates" that these cosmic titans feed from.

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has discovered lumps of particles within a black hole jet in ...

When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted ...

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

As the UK government stares into a £22 Billion deficit black hole, and we all share the doom and gloom of potential tax rises in the autumn budget, ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event, where a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has transformed directly into a black hole, without the usual supernova explosion. The phenomenon ...

As you can probably imagine by this point, falling into a black hole would be terrifying. "If you fell into a black hole, the gravitational pull would stretch you out in a process called ...

The 35.4-meter acrylic sphere is the crucial component of the core equipment of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory ...

When 25-year-old Sadie Bartell's world turned upside down, never in her wildest dreams did she think help would come from a global pop star. But that's exactly what happened when Taylor Swift came to ...

Astronomers revisited decades-old data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, discovering bright, clumped “knots” in an ...