I remember farmers driving into town in mid-April in what appeared to be mud-balls on wheels, with one tiny peephole in the ...

There are few worse places for a portable toilet — for pedestrians and those who need to use it — than on a busy sidewalk, right next to an entrance to a TTC station. Entrances to stations ...

It could be an unhappy ending for a seedy all-male massage parlor that officials say openly offers hands-on sexual satisfaction. The city is suing to close down 28 Men’s Spa on the West Side ...

An unknown small object, traveling thousands of miles per hour, punctured a satellite in Earth's orbit. The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, which leave behind a black hole or a neutron star, are so energetic they ...

As it turns out, stellar-mass and supermassive black hole coronas share geometric properties. Despite their name, black holes are often surrounded by bright, radiating whirlpools of matter known a ...

In March 1974, Stephen Hawking published the paper that made his name. It contained the revelation that black holes – gravitational giants from which nothing, not even light, can escape – don ...

Physicists at MIT and Caltech have discovered the first “black hole triple,” a formation more than 8,000 light years from Earth that experts say expands the current understanding of how black ...

"Overall, it's not surprising that black holes should be in triples, but what's surprising is that this system held onto the outer star after forming the black hole." Astronomers have discovered ...

A research team led by Assistant Professor Makoto Miyoshi of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has independently re-analyzed observation data of the supermassive black hole at ...