Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

An international team of astronomers has successfully demonstrated a new technique to observe especially faint black holes by ...

Combined with the lack of detected light from the lens at late HST epochs, the BH nature of the lens is conclusively verified,” the scientists wrote in their landmark paper in The Astrophysical ...

An experimental setup mimics a “black hole bomb” first theorized in 1971. The spinning cylinder with circuitry is true to the ...

A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark ...

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...