Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey ...

The Milky Way has millions of small black holes and one giant supermassive black hole at its center. But does the galaxy have ...

Quasars are a state when a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy is feeding at such a ... Mission (XRISM), a JAXA-led international space telescope, researchers have now resolved ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 100 examples of massive black holes shredding and devouring stars, almost all of them where you'd expect to find massive black holes: in the star-dense cores of ...

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

In science fiction, wormholes are hyperspace subway tubes linking one part of a galaxy directly to another, distant point.

More than $20 billion needed to complete the first stage of the Allan government’s $34.5 billion Suburban Rail Loop was missing from the state budget yesterday, as spending on public sector ...

which was the first of its kind for keeping pilots alive in near-space conditions. This even led to the first specialized food and water provisions. Pilots could push a tube through a little hole ...

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