"The creation of heavy elements such as uranium and plutonium necessitates extreme conditions," said physicist Matthew ...

A newly published study in The Astrophysical Journal has revealed the presence of a previously undetected supermassive black ...

In a baffling cosmic mystery, astronomers have reported a star that appeared to vanish without a trace. One night it was there, shining bright—and the next, it was gone. No explosion, no fading, no ...

Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long thought to be the missing link between stellar-mass and supermassive black ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously ...

Astronomers confirm a wandering black hole in our galaxy’s Sagittarius region using Hubble and Gaia microlensing data.

Since black holes absorb any light that falls into them, the only sign of their ... because the chances of them lining up with a large star are so slim. Black holes are the ultra-dense remains ...

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 ...

Scientists have been left stunned after stumbling across a lone black hole drifting through space. It's not every day ...

These are hypothetical megastructures placed around a star to harvest most of ... that energy could be extracted from black holes by lowering an object into the ergosphere (the region just outside ...

The photo suggests that interstellar 'scraps' of matter are being strewn into space as ... the winds inhibit star formation. "It also shows that the more powerful black holes impede their own ...