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

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

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

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

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

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

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

Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In late October 2025, as much as US$2 billion vanished from a digital marketplace. This wasn’t a hack or a bubble bursting. It happened because one company, Valve, changed the rules ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

Just when you think you understand black holes, the James Webb Space Telescope goes and discovers something that no one has ...