University of Oregon astronomer Yvette Cendes made a surprising discovery years after a black hole shredded a star. What is ...

Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" won several awards, including an Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Which scientific ...

An artist's concept of a tidal disruption event (TDE), which happens when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole. The gravity of the black hole pulls material from the star and launches a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How black holes stretch, crush, and swallow matter. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) Centuries before ...

An unusually massive black hole in the very early universe may be a kind of exotic, star-less black hole first theorised by Stephen Hawking. In August, Boyuan Liu at the University of Cambridge and ...

The complex dance of two black holes locked in a doomed orbit has been revealed in a first-of-its-kind direct radio image. It's the first time astronomers have directly imaged the distinct jets of ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, that's what defines a black hole, right? Well, it depends on what you mean by ...