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

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

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

Webb detected rare neon gas in M83. This may signal a hidden black hole, challenging the idea that the galaxy has only ...

No explosive birth needed: The discovery suggests this black hole likely formed through direct collapse, a quiet implosion ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

Ansky, a once-dormant black hole, is now emitting powerful X-ray bursts, giving scientists a rare chance to study its ...

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

In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to Earth! Now, new research from some of those same astronomers suggests ...

rather than the star coming to it, with disastrous results. This is a death plunge that occurs when the orbit of this alien world erodes over time. The end was quite dramatic, as evidenced by the ...

A black hole is a terrifying concept ... In the case of Ansky, however, there isn’t any evidence linking it to the death of a star. “The bursts of X-rays from Ansky are ten times longer ...

Rashida Jones of Black Mirror fame, who graces the season ... Prior to her relationship with Ezra, Rashida was linked to Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire; the duo reportedly dated for three years ...