A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds the star, its gas ...

It’s a pattern that keeps repeating itself. And it’s not a winning pattern. Week after week, the Eagles are digging themselves a first-quarter hole. And week after week, they’re too far behind to ...

A doomed star spiraling into a supermassive black hole has given physicists one of their clearest looks yet at how gravity ...

A black hole at the center of a distant galaxy is behaving like no other black hole astronomers have ever seen. "It was completely unexpected," Giovanni Miniutti, an astronomer at Spain's Center of ...

Recent discoveries by astronomers have revealed the presence of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) emanating from a region near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. These enigmatic signals have ...

The dramatic dimming of a light source ~ 870 million light years away from Earth confirms the accuracy of a detailed model. The dramatic dimming of a light source ~ 860 million light-years away from ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...