A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding a black hole and releasing powerful bursts of X-rays in the process. Soon, ...

One of the papers, published last year, describes the simulated results of quakes on the surface of neutron stars before they ...

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A new simulation by researchers shows how a neutron star violently cracks seconds before vanishing into a black hole.

Scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter.

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...

instead of accumulating it like Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. The laws of physics predict that there will exist a radius, larger as the mass of the black hole increases, where the math turns itself ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...