Right at the brink of a black hole, gravity twists space and time so violently that ordinary physics starts to fall apart.
Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...
Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...
A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black ...
Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...
In a remarkable breakthrough published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an international team of astronomers using ...