"Think of it like a river turning into a waterfall — hitherto, we have been looking at the river. This is our first sight of ...
University of Copenhagen astrophysicists help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars suddenly vanish from the night sky. Their study of an unusual binary star system has resulted in convincing ...
Stellar mass black holes, which are significantly smaller than their supermassive cousins, usually weigh in at around 10 solar masses. But the European Space Agency just found that’s more than 3 ...
A new study in Physical Review Letters explores the conditions of black hole formation from dying stars, particularly the ...
Imagine an object with gravity so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape after falling in. Such a beast would be ...
A stellar-mass black hole would quickly tear you apart. But a person encountering a supermassive black hole could survive for ...
Supermassive black holes may create conditions akin to "cosmic intersections with failed traffic lights" that make collisions between smaller stellar-mass black holes inevitable. And you thought ...