"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

"In principle, extraction is possible, and it could be a clean and efficient solution to the complex energy problems we will ...

Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long ...

Researchers mapping a bubble of superheated gas that surrounds our solar system found a surprise, there is a tunnel that may ...

One of the common misconceptions about black holes is that they devour not only matter, but also the history of that matter.

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

The accretion disk around a black hole can form a jet of hot, energetic particles surrounded by magnetic field lines. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI), CC BY) These jets can speed up ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

In the early universe, primordial black holes could acquire a "dark charge," giving them an unnaturally long lifetime, new ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

Our conception of time, black holes ... through a white hole,” Gielen added. Although this idea remains highly speculative, it could open new avenues for exploring concepts such as wormholes and ...