This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun. Supermassive ...
Scientists have discovered strong evidence that some massive stars end their existence with a whimper, not a bang, and sink ...
A simulation showed black holes with masses between 100 and 10,000 times that of the sun could be born through a chaotic ...
In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose. The gravitational pull from these tiny, ...
Scientists have calculated the speed of a spinning supermassive black hole by studying the 'spaghettified' remains of a star ...
Astronomers at MIT, NASA, and elsewhere have a new way to measure how fast a black hole spins, by using the wobbly aftermath ...
Joint research led by Michiko Fujii of The University of Tokyo demonstrated a possible formation mechanism of ...
While the life cycle of stars is well understood, there are still many mysteries surrounding their collapse and spectacular ...
Black holes are the darlings of science and science fiction. They were conceptualized as early as 1783 by English natural philosopher John Michell, who proposed “dark stars.” He envisioned ...
For nearly a century, dark matter has been one of the most enigmatic concepts in astrophysics. This hypothetical form of ...
When a star dies what is left behind is called a stellar remnant. The type of stellar remnant is dependent upon the star’s ...
Based on estimates of the black hole's mass, and that of the disrupted star, they were able to come up with an estimate for the black hole's spin -- less than 25 percent the speed of light.