Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever ...

The JWST's MIRI detected a flare in Sagittarius A*, revealing for the first time in mid-infrared how an explosion occurs near ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Geralt via Pixabay Primordial black holes (PBHs), which are thought to have formed right ...

Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a ...

Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime in ...

Physicists agree that an awful lot went on in the first few seconds after the Big Bang, a lot of it in incomprehensibly tiny ...

Hawking radiation, a theoretical prediction arising from the interplay between quantum mechanics and general relativity, posits that black holes emit thermal radiation due to quantum effects near the ...

Falling into a black hole means facing extreme stretching, known as spaghettification, due to immense tidal forces. While ...

Learn what a black hole is, how it forms, and how astronomers detect it. Understand the science behind black holes and their ...