After the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death, the news reverberated across the Chicago area, Naperville included.

Cathedral of Saint John Berchmans Shreveport held a memorial mass Monday, mourning and paying tribute to the life of Pope ...

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 shrinkage towards the black ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with ...

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' ...

Black Catholics in America have ties back to colonial times and are actively campaigning for a Black Catholic saint.

Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that.

These black holes typically have masses ranging from about 3 to 20 times the mass of our sun. Sometimes black holes generate beams of ionized gas (plasma) that shoot outward at nearly light speed.

The confrontation stemmed from the group's attempt to hold a "Black Mass" inside the building, an act met with fierce opposition from Christian counter-protesters. About 30 members of the Kansas ...

(OSV News) -- A Satanic group’s effort to conduct a “black mass” at the Kansas Statehouse March 28 turned violent, leading to arrests, while across the street the state’s Catholic ...

Before his arrest, Stewart said his group scheduled its Black Mass for Friday because it thought the Kansas Legislature would be in session, though lawmakers adjourned late Thursday night for ...