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 ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black ...

In a remarkable breakthrough published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an international team of astronomers using ...