Personal freedom should always be coupled with the responsibility to fight for the freedoms of everyone else in our ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Few things in space are as bright as a supernova, but recently astronomer captured a flash out in the cosmos so great their ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

LOS ANGELES, June 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Aristotle Quantum Intelligence, a startup focused on developing novel theories and applications driven by discoveries in physics, announced today the launch ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Study reveals that high-energy cosmic rays are born in magnetic fields during neutron star mergers, a prelude to black holes.

But what happens inside a black hole, beyond the event horizon from which nothing can escape, remains a mystery. In 1965, the British physicist Roger Penrose proved that under very general conditions, ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, but because a ...