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Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

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Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...