Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

An already gigantic hole in Earth’s natural force field has grown by nearly half the size of Europe in 10 years, according to a new study. The Earth is protected by the cosmic equivalent of cling film ...

At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

A giant hole has opened in the atmosphere of the Sun, and it's blasting out a high-speed wind that is directed right at Earth. The incoming blast of solar particles is worth getting excited about: ...

Inside Silke Weinfurtner’s laboratory at the University of Nottingham in the UK, a giant water tank is helping her team better understand the complexity of the universe by standing in as an analogue ...