"Think of it like a river turning into a waterfall — hitherto, we have been looking at the river. This is our first sight of ...
University of Copenhagen astrophysicists help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars suddenly vanish from the night sky. Their study of an unusual binary star system has resulted in convincing ...
A new study in Physical Review Letters explores the conditions of black hole formation from dying stars, particularly the ...
Imagine an object with gravity so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape after falling in. Such a beast would be ...
Anyone who has watched Matthew McConaughey plunge into a supermassive black hole in "Interstellar" may think they have a rough idea of what it'd be like to encounter one of these terrifying cosmic ...
If you were having a bad day, plunging into a black hole would be enough to really top it off. Apparently, you’d experience a process known as “spaghettification” in which the black hole’s ...