Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...

The immense gravity of each black hole distorts light from the other’s accretion disk, creating a “funhouse mirror” effect.

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...