The curious minds at What If explore the catastrophic consequences of a rogue black hole entering our solar system and the ...
A black hole shredded a massive star in a record-breaking explosion, but what astronomers discovered afterward may be even ...
New observations show that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way does not consume nearby dust objects as ...
When two black holes orbit each other, they eventually spiral inward and collide in one of the most violent phenomena in the ...
Scientists have discovered an unusual high-energy event in deep space, which may be the first direct evidence of the ...
Since gravitational waves were first detected in 2015, instruments including LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA have picked up a steady stream of signals from colliding black holes, building a catalog that now ...
Nearly every massive galaxy observed hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...
Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...
Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption event.