"This is very likely to bring us closer to discovering the true nature of dark energy. Perhaps it will also bring us closer ...

The theory goes that black holes accrete material, often from nearby stars. However the theory also suggests there is a limit to how big a black hole can grow due to accretion and certainly shouldn’t ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion of the ...

Scientists have found the first ever “black hole triple”.Many of the black holes previously found are thought to be part of a ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Since then, V404 Cygni has become one of the most well-studied black holes, and has been documented ... they're attached by this weak string of gravity. So this has to be a triple system." ...

As you can probably imagine by this point, falling into a black hole would be terrifying. "If you fell into a black hole, the gravitational pull would stretch you out in a process called ...

For centuries, gravity has been a source of fascination for scientists. Thanks to the groundbreaking work of Newton and ...

Since then, V404 Cygni has become one of the most well-studied black holes, and has been documented ... they’re attached by this weak string of gravity. So this has to be a triple system.” ...