At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Black holes, once purely theoretical, are now observable phenomena, offering insights into the universe. Their intense ...

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), using Hawking radiation. This groundbreaking approach relies upon watching ...

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have detected powerful space explosions caused by black holes tearing apart massive stars ...

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly ...

These explosions, called extreme nuclear transients, shine for longer than typical supernovas and get 30 to 1,000 times as bright.