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, ...

A judge has ordered that the man held without bail and be given a mental-health evaluation after the May 27 incident at ...

Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms or molecules of gas. On Earth, these are known as the northern lights ...

It is near Abacoa Golf Club's third hole. The four golfers reported the firing of six to 10 shots shortly after 6 p.m., a Jupiter police ... Nobile, armed with a black handgun, entered his house ...

The supermassive black hole involved has a mass on the order of ... the disk and then expel a quantity of material equivalent to Jupiter's mass at velocities up to 15% of the speed of light.

As federal funding cuts impact decades of research, scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to ...

New calculations have revealed that the super-energetic jets produced by spinning black holes could be a source for elusive ...

Merging neutron stars are excellent targets for multi-messenger astronomy. This modern and still very young method of ...

Black holes are often considered terrors of the known universe. Supermassive black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light doesn't have enough energy to ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space ...

A one million-solar-mass black hole resides outside its host galaxy's centre. In a scene straight out of a sci-fi movie, scientists have captured a hungry black hole that is ripping up and ...