It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

Black holes, those cosmic objects from which even light cannot escape, remain by definition invisible to our eyes. How then can we understand their behavior? A team of astrophysicists has taken a ...

A black hole inside a distant spiral galaxy is devouring material from the universe around it and creating winds at speeds never before seen by astronomers. The European Space Agency said that the ...

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive black hole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light Supermassive black holes are the monsters of the universe, so it is perhaps only ...

Astrophysicists have created terrifying simulations that reveal how black holes naturally create dazzling displays detected from billions of light-years away. In the stunning imagery, the black holes ...

Efforts to limit ozone-depleting chemical compounds had a significant impact. The ozone hole over the Antarctic is significantly smaller in 2025 than in previous years, ranking as the fifth-smallest ...

Albert Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity, may not be the best recipe to describe black holes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

GamingWithKev reveals how to win big in Roblox’s wild Hole Simulator game. As California highway slides toward sea, the fix will take billions Dad sees two words son wrote on math homework, sparks ...

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, ...

A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a cosmic outburst with the light of 10 trillion suns, according to a new study. The black hole flare, as the phenomenon is ...

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