Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...

An international research team, including Newcastle University’s Dr Adam Ingram, has detected rapidly fluctuating X-rays ...

Black holes and neutron stars are among the most fascinating and mysterious objects in the universe. These cosmic phenomena ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...

Are there particles that can move faster than light? Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb explores this question and the mysterious ...

This is what it's like inside a tornado, where atmospheric conditions are in constant flux. The air is thick with ...