Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole doing something that sounds like science fiction: racing through space at ...

"Rohan was first, for Rohan Shivakumar, the Yale student who first analyzed it, and Gondor was next, because, well — the beacons were lit!" ...

New research reveals how quiet galactic engines can help shape entire galaxies.

A supercharged neutrino that smashed into our planet in 2023 may have been spit out by an exploding primordial black hole ...

Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Hypothetical dark matter stars known as "boson stars" could leave telltale ripples across the cosmos, offering researchers a new way to probe the invisible forces shaping the universe. In 2019, a ...

Scientists say an ultra-powerful neutrino once thought impossible may be explained by an exotic black hole model involving a so-called “dark charge.” ...

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...

On July 2, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source whose ...

One of the brightest stars in the Andromeda galaxy has disappeared without the explosion astronomers expected. Instead, they ...

Asupermassive black hole may have been caught in the act of fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000-light-year trail of newborn ...