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 ...

Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part it is because they have a tendency to ...

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, ...

Red giant star in Gaia BH2 shows starquakes revealing its hidden history. Study challenges assumptions about chemical age and ...

Recently, physics professor Robert Scherrer crunched the numbers to figure out what would happen if a low-mass black hole ...

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.