While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

Ansky, a once-dormant black hole, is now emitting powerful X-ray bursts, giving scientists a rare chance to study its ...

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton is playing a crucial role in investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren’t formed by collapsing stars. Instead, they emerged when extremely ...

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 ...

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A leader of a Satanist group and three others were arrested Friday after a fight broke out inside the Kansas Statehouse after the leader allegedly tried to hold a Black Mass in the rotunda.

SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave him chills. Black holes themselves — so gravitationally powerful not even light can escape their grasp — produce no ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research published in Nature Astronomy from an ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope discovered that the rotation of the galaxies goes against what ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the Universe. It's also revealed a few surprises. One of these is the appearance of small, highly ...