Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth’s ...

For just one-tenth of a second in May 2019, the universe delivered a signal that did not fit the usual script. LIGO and Virgo ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

A global team of astronomers has produced the first image that captures both the glowing ring of matter around a supermassive ...

Artistic depiction of the explosive interaction between the black hole and the massive nearby star (blue). As the separation between the star and the black hole decreased, the black hole's intense ...

A black hole roughly 7,000 light-years from Earth is firing a jet of superheated plasma at close to half the speed of light, ...

Scientists have measured the true power of black hole jets for the first time, revealing streams as powerful as 10,000 Suns.

The jets do not move in a straight, obedient line. Around Cygnus X-1, a black hole and a massive supergiant star circle each ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought was possible. Reading time 4 minutes When LIGO broke news of an ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and ...