U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have discovered an early universe supermassive black hole ...

Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now ...

Master and Commander' Turns Oceans into Battlefields . Set during the Napoleonic Wars, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World features one of Russell Crowe’s best perf ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer ...

When privacy becomes a dark currency, it fuels a growing digital black hole that voraciously devours personal information. Reports indicate the recent case involved data purchased from one of the ...

The scientists studied a black hole system consisting of a stellar-mass black hole and a sun-like star orbiting each other. In this system, 5 or 6 jets occur over a period of about 20 days, making ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Supermassive black holes can strip subgiant stars of their outer layers, leaving behind dense helium cores. These cores, in close orbit around the black hole ...

The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) has captured new images of the Acheron Fossae region on Mars. A characteristic horst-and-graben structure was formed in this region over 3.7 billion years ago.

The Par 3 Course at Augusta National Golf Club is a nine-hole course, separate from the main course. As its name states, all the holes are par 3s. From there, it's just like a typical golf tournament.

Humans are quite rightly fascinated by black holes, but could we ever harness them as an energy source? New research poses this question in order to explore some of the most wonderous cosmic events.