Now, researchers led by Los Alamos National Laboratory have proposed a bold new idea: that stars collapsing into black holes ...

A Death Star is born. As if regular old star-gobbling black holes weren’t terrifying enough, scientists discovered that certain types swivel around and shoot beams at various objects in the ...

the stripping of a star wouldn't produce a bright flare we can detect. Certainly not for Sag A*, which is shrouded in gas and dust. But since the dense helium core remains close to the black hole, its ...

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

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

In this environment, Mumpower’s team suggest that energetic photons in a jet collide with protons to create a neutron and a ...

Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

However, no one has ever been able to detect these black holes because the chances of them lining up with a large star are so slim. Black holes are the ultra-dense remains of exploded stars which ...

Without the energy needed to counteract the push of its own immense gravity, the star's core collapses to form a black hole. This catastrophic death can launch incredibly strong pulses of ...

What if a star gets close enough to a star to experience ... But since the dense helium core remains close to the black hole, its dying orbit could be detected through gravitational waves.