A supermassive black hole is on track to produce the longest recorded emission of energy left over from a shredded star.

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth&rsquo ...

Runaway black holes have moved from theoretical oddity to observed reality, and the picture they paint is as unsettling as it is awe inspiring. Instead of sitting quietly at galactic centers, some of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A giant black hole far from the galactic center, occupied by an even larger black hole, emits bright radio flares after eating a ...

A neutrino with almost unimaginable energy slammed into Earth in early 2023, carrying roughly 220 petaelectronvolts, far beyond anything human machines can produce. The event, tagged KM3-230213A, has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How black holes stretch, crush, and swallow matter. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) Centuries before ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things like tangled-up ...

Researchers believe the 'ultramassive' black hole is big enough to be the largest of its kind ever detected. Black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light ...

This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more. This discovery upends conventional wisdom about such tidal disruption ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, that's what defines a black hole, right? Well, it depends on what you mean by ...