Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a massive plasma jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87. This “blow-torch”-like jet, traveling near the speed of ...

The 2000 science fiction film Pitch Black (now streaming on Peacock!) launched The Chronicles of Riddick franchise and introduced the world to Richard B. Riddick, as played by Vin Diesel. In the ...

Stars could be sliced in half by "relativistic blades," or ultra-powerful outflows of plasma shaped by extremely strong magnetic fields, an unpublished paper claims.

Instead, upon entering the black hole, objects start rotating in a process called “frame-dragging,” which swirls surrounding plasma into spiraling accretion disks.

Supermassive black holes that shred and Supermassive black holes that shred and devour stars throw them up like a "bad curry" and cover themselves in the wreckage, sick new simulations reveal.

The scientists studied a black hole system consisting of a stellar-mass black hole and a sun-like star orbiting each other. In this system, 5 or 6 jets occur over a period of about 20 days, making ...

Sometimes the star's fiery plasma entrails immediately settle into a round, flat accretion disk around the black hole, just like something out of a physics textbook.

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole as it spaghettified a hapless star. The intermediate-size black hole, located 850 million light-years from Earth in the galaxy SDSS J152120.07+140410.5 ...

Scientists have found a way to produce "plasma fireballs" just like those made by black holes—but here on Earth. The immensely powerful beam of plasma produced by the scientists—using the ...