Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red ...

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...

Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

If you've ever wondered what would actually happen if a microscopic black hole tunneled straight through your body, answers ...

A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed up by a pulp-era sci-fi writer. Which, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the cosmic frontier to a point where astronomers are now talking seriously about ...

The tidal forces produced by a tiny black hole would have an interesting effect on human bodies.

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...