CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For decades, astronomers believed all compact objects like neutron stars and black holes received violent “natal kicks” during their formation. That theory just suffered a fatal ...

The chief judge said the bathroom hole represented a figurative black hole that “exerted a gravitational pull” on the student’s natural inquisitiveness. The only evidence before the court ...

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ...

This artist’s impression illustrates the mechanism that could be at the origin of the powerful bursts of X-ray light seen from a newly awakened black hole named Ansky. ESA; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...

In late March, the Society of Professional Journalists bestowed the Utah Legislature with its notorious Black Hole Award, an annual dishonor that recognizes government institutions for “heinous ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Supermassive black holes can strip subgiant stars of their outer layers, leaving behind dense helium cores. These cores, in close orbit around the black hole ...

Physicists are reshaping our understanding of black holes in new research that maps theoretical structures within them known as “supermazes,” offering an unprecedented look at their microstructure.

Doing the 92 is Daniel Storey’s odyssey to every English football league club in a single season. This is club 76/92. The best way to follow his journey and read all of the previous pieces is by ...

3D rendering of a rapidly spinning black hole’s accretion disk and a resulting black hole-powered jet. Credit: Ore Gottlieb et al. (2024) Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and ...

Black holes, the densest objects in the universe, eat up anything that comes too close, even light. Is there anything left inside these behemoths that could reveal what they devoured in the first ...

Credit: ESO/C. Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food in a lively new image from the Very Large Telescope.