black hole

In May 2019, astronomers witnessed a bright flare coming from the center of our galaxy. The event was caused by…

Two years ago, astronomers acquired the first direct image of a black hole. A coordinated observation campaign of…

On August 30, 1995, 10-billion-year-old light from the early universe finally hit the Compton Gamma-ray Observatory,…

In April 2019, the world was spellbound, if only for a moment, by an ominous void encircled by a half-halo of light.…

Some 230 million light-years from Earth, there’s a black hole going places. These extraordinarily dense objects are u…

Over the Christmas season of 2019, four physicists hovered over two minuscule gold orbs, each about the size of a…

About 7,800 light-years away—within our galactic neighborhood—is globular cluster NGC 6397, basically a wad of stars…

On November 14, 2014, a telescope spotted a burst of light in a galaxy 570 million light-years away. It was thought…

Today, scientists revealed the first-ever image of a black hole at a press conference in Washington, D.C. This is a…

Titans casts another member of the Doom Patrol. The Flash could be looking to cast a few deep comics cuts. Jonathan…

Science fiction doesn’t exist to make movies about the stuff we know about—it explores the unknown physics,…

The scenario seems impossible. A black hole randomly passing into our solar system. If it happened, it would…

Earlier this year, Japan launched a groundbreaking black-hole-monitoring satellite—only to lose control of it almost…

One of the most incredible things about black holes is how much bigger they are than almost anything else out there.…

This rainbow splatter might not look like the beautiful images of galaxies you’re used to seeing, but it’s actually…

Black holes are some of the strangest objects in the universe. But, just as impenetrable a mystery? The heavy cloud…

Two theories, from the always knowledgable Kurz Gesagt: you die a quick death or you die a very quick death. No one…

A black hole isn’t the energy sink you might think it is. By hurling matter towards a black hole, it might be…

“Here be dragons” was a phrase once used on ancient maps, often accompanied by mythical sketches, to highlight an…