Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...
"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...
How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...
Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...
Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...
NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has heard the song a star-quaking red giant sings to its partner black hole.
Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...
"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...
A high-altitude balloon telescope has revealed new patterns in X-rays emitted near the black hole Cygnus X-1. These signals ...
In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...