Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that.

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

A team of researchers has engineered a groundbreaking optical device that mimics the physics of black holes and their ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

Offers new possibilities to control light across the spectrum and insight into light–matter interactions. The device, reported in Advanced Photonics, functions as an optical black hole or optical ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

In the realm of general relativity, black holes are well-known for their ability to trap light and matter by bending ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

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"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer Lorena Hernández-García.

In a star’s core, fusion takes terrific temperature and pressure that is provided by the crushing gravity of the star’s ...

Indian astronomers have performed X-ray observations of an X-ray binary designated 4U 1907+09. Results of the observational ...