This diagram shows how a shifting feature, called a corona, can create a flare of X-rays around a black hole. The corona (feature represented in purplish colors) gathers inward (left), becoming ...

A zombie star has defied expectations by surviving a supernova explosion that should have destroyed it. The undead white star ...

these aren't the type of supernovas that mark the death of a star when the star runs out of fuel needed for nuclear fusion and collapses under the influence of its own gravity (leaving a black ...

Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Robert Oppenheimer, Karl Schwarzschild, John Wheeler, Albert Einstein, Leonard Susskind – these renowned scientists all, in one way or another, helped black holes ...

SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE are ravenous black holes that pull gas, dust, light and even other black holes into their maw, never to be seen again. Like a riptide pulling swimmers out to sea ...

And yes, the images indeed show what is popularly known as a "headspin hole" — actually, a tumorous mass or bumpb that breakdancers sometimes develop on top of their heads. Report co-author ...

There are many to choose from, but the indelible moment in the both quaffable and transcendent “Sideways“—Alexander Payne’s now 20-year-old bummer masterpiece adaptation of Rex Pickett’s novel about ...

Pop star Olivia Rodrigo made an unfortunate trip down under during the Australian leg of her world tour, falling through a hole in the stage on Monday. The Drivers License singer was running and ...

Understanding how this microquasar works could also help researchers learn more about full-sized quasars — monstrous objects centred around supermassive black holes, which are too distant to ...