Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red ...

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

If you've ever wondered what would actually happen if a microscopic black hole tunneled straight through your body, answers ...

The black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is 1000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*. Watch views of both captured ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed up by a pulp-era sci-fi writer. Which, ...

A study by physicist Robert Scherrer has shown that in order for a primary black hole to cause serious injury or death, its ...

The tidal forces produced by a tiny black hole would have an interesting effect on human bodies.