NASA has released three new pieces of cosmic sound that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole consuming a star outside a galaxy's center for the first time, challenging previous assumptions. The event, named "AT2024tvd," occurred 600 ...

Scientists have made the most accurate predictions yet of the elusive space-time disturbances caused when two black holes fly closely past each other. The new findings, published Wednesday (May 14 ...

Physicists have built the first ever black hole bomb, a long-theorised phenomenon where energy is boosted by a black hole and trapped by surrounding mirrors until an explosion occurs. Thankfully ...

Apr. 9, 2025 — Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid ...

Through the looking glass: The discovery of a supermassive black hole not only challenges assumptions about where these galactic giants reside but also demonstrates the power of combining ...

It wandered too close to a black hole and was ripped apart in a bright burst of light. That much isn’t unusual, but what stunned astronomers was where it happened: not in the dense center of the ...

What if you could create a black hole bomb without leaving Earth? That’s exactly what a team of physicists from the University of Southampton, the University of Glasgow, and the Institute for ...

The Milky Way is often referred to as a medium-sized galaxy in the universe, with approximately 200 million stars and a massive black hole at its center, which recently started to shoot in all ...

Now, in the real world, astronomers have confirmed the existence of another wandering monstrosity, a rogue black hole cruising through our very own Milky Way Galaxy. In 2022 a team of astronomers ...

A supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of a relatively close galaxy is firing off a rapid-fire slew of ultrafast gas "bullets" into the surrounding galaxy. This is the conclusion of an ...

With data from space telescopes, the agency has developed three new audio tracks that give voice to black holes. NASA's new ... The radio waves from the nebula resemble a wandering manatee.