Every time this doomed star plunges through a supermassive black hole's accretion disk, it loses orbital energy and triggers ...

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves ...

For nearly 30 years, scientists have been puzzled by a strange “dissonance” in the way black holes give off gravitational ...

According to the IXPE's findings, high optical to X-ray polarization ratio indicates that Compton scattering might be the mechanism of X-ray generation. There are two possible and competing ...

Black holes are simpler than you might think ... Scientists suspected a mistake, but even with improved computers and methods, the mystery remained. A breakthrough finally came from Associate ...

Astronomers have spotted around a dozen weird explosions in space and can't explain why. It's not every day scientists manage ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

A "fast-feeding" black hole that appeared to defy physics is actually pretty ordinary, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal. In November 2024, astronomers using JWST ...