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 ...

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 ...

PARIS, France — A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled scientists, a study said ...

A group of physicists has proposed a new way of thinking about black holes by mapping out intricate “supermazes” – theoretical structures that provide a fresh blueprint for understanding the ...

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 ...

“It is the Black Hole of southern Ohio,” Ramey said. “I mean, there’s nothing here.” The Chillicothe VA isn’t just a major health care facility in the region, serving more than 22,000 vets annually.

Astronomers using the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected supermassive black hole-driven winds in the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4945. NGC 4945 resides over 12 million ...

Also known as supermassive black holes, these cosmic monsters can be millions to billions of times more massive than our Sun. They are typically found at the centres of most large galaxies ...

One of the common misconceptions about black holes is that they devour not only matter, but also the history of that matter. So when a black hole forms, you can only guess how it came to be. That ...

“Almost £10 million will be staked illegally on the unsafe, growing gambling black market at this year’s Grand National, fuelling crime, undermining player protection measures, while sucking ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope. "Every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole, but the exact ...