For the first time, scientists have observed a swirling distortion in spacetime caused by a rapidly spinning black hole—an ...

An immigrant grandmother was left suffering severe memory loss and forced to breathe through a hole in her neck following a ...

Scientists detect a 20-day wobble from a star-shredding black hole, confirming spacetime twisting predicted by Einstein.

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

Director Andre Gaines explores the impact Stuart Scott had on the media landscape in his 30 for 30 documentary for ESPN, "Boo ...

Record-breaking ultrafast outflow (UFO) winds from a supermassive black hole flung matter across the universe close to the speed of light.

Scientists may have to rethink their playbook for studying gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful known cosmic explosions, after ...

A faint, ancient flash of light detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has broken the record for the most distant ...

In the heart of a distant spiral galaxy, a cosmic storm has erupted. This event is unlike anything astronomers have seen ...

Astronomers have witnessed a dramatic and extremely fast outburst from a supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 ...

Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...