Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A ...

"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

"In principle, extraction is possible, and it could be a clean and efficient solution to the complex energy problems we will ...

Supermazes” are theoretical structures that provide a fresh blueprint for understanding the microscopic complexity of black ...

String theory, an attempt to merge gravity with quantum physics, says yes. A new study suggests that within black holes lie tangled pathways of strings called supermazes, which hold that ...

Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it consumed little matter and was in a dormant state. But recently it suddenly lit ...

This past April, a picture of a black hole, captured by a global network ... The picture again validated the physics of Einstein, but also provided a glimpse of what may lie beyond the universe ...

In a study published in The Astrophysics Journal, a Michigan State University researcher used the NASA Chandra X-Ray ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the winners of the 2025 Breakthrough Prizes, honoring scientists driving ...