Astronomers have uncovered a surprising behavior in black holes that has upended long-standing theories about how these ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

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

Space is full of mysteries. Every time we think we’ve seen it all, something new comes along that challenges everything we ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

A brilliant new class of cosmic explosions has been uncovered—so powerful they outshine anything scientists have ever seen.

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

New evidence and properties of intermediate-mass black holes have been discovered with help from RIT researchers, as ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate ...

Whereas scientists have observed plenty of stellar mass black holes and SMBHs, evidence of IMBHs has been a lot harder to ...