Ghana, Africa’s top gold producer, has lost a massive $11.4 billion due to gold smuggling over just five years, a new report ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

It feels like we are currently living in a golden age of black hole discoveries but I have a very strong feeling that we ain’t seen nothing yet. Dr John Regan is a Royal Society ...

Sometime between the American Revolution and the California gold rush, the black hole at the Milky Way’s heart woke up. The black hole, called Sagittarius A*, has been quiet and dim since it was ...

But black holes are awfully messy eaters, leading to ejections of gas in potent "outflows." Yet this particular black hole, dubbed LID-568, is feeding ravenously on matter at a rate 40 times ...

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating cylinder and magnetic coils. Studying the bomb could help us better ...

A year in the life of a supermassive black hole. The first image of M87* — and humanity's first image of any black hole, for that matter — was taken by the EHT in 2017 and released to the ...