If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

"They are everywhere!" A terrifying finding made in a solar system void. The discovery of a record-mass stellar black hole in our galaxy.

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

Find out why Christopher Nolan's movie Interstellar remains a cinematic masterpiece even a decade after its initial release.

Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...

Increasing, or at least sustaining, genetic diversity is crucial as it makes a species more adept at adapting to changing ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

You would have to flip 75 heads in a row on a fair coin to have the same probability of a single neutrino interacting with a ...

Black holes are profoundly dense. If Earth was (hypothetically ... the shredding of the white dwarf's material has a "kickback" effect, propelling it away from the black hole's event horizon.

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

Today we’ll talk about side effects, and whether the cure is worse than the disease.