This freaky black spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean was spotted on Google Earth. Located in the South Pacific about ...

Gamma rays detected by NASA's Fermi spacecraft indicate that microquasars are powered by small black holes slowly devouring ...

Research has found black holes which 'nibble' on stars are contributing more than previously thought to the bombardment of ...

In 1974, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a murder mystery with an interesting premise: Could you kill a man with a ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Scientists are exploring whether primordial black holes, formed after the Big Bang, could be lethal if one passed through a ...

A new study delves into the mind-bending question: what if a tiny primordial black hole passed through a human body?

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

In science fiction, black holes often appear as cosmic monsters, devouring everything in their path. But what if one, smaller ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

Astronomers have used a continent-sized radio telescope to find the largest black hole jet ever observed in the early ...

"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic rays are produced in the jets of microquasars." Using 16 years of data ...