Astronomers on Tuesday said they found two supermassive black holes — the nearest pair to Earth ever discovered — that are merging into a single "monster." The cosmic couple was located 89 ...
The result is a supernova explosion, a calamitous event that destroys the star and leaves behind a black hole or a neutron star ... through every person on Earth. But in a dense stellar core ...
Astronomers have, for the first time, captured the moment the gravity of a supermassive black hole ripped apart a star that drifted too close to causing a fast-moving jet of cosmic material and energy ...
Astronomers have a new candidate in their search for the nearest black hole to Earth. It's about 1,000 light-years away, or roughly 9.5 thousand, million, million km, in the Constellation Telescopium.
The team proposed that information and everything else wasn't destroyed with ... to the theory, black holes are far more timid - and we wouldn't even notice if Earth was swallowed by one.
Researchers studying the phenomenon observed a stellar debris disc around the black hole that appeared when the passing star was destroyed. The debris was heated up to millions of degrees ...
The study calculated how large a hollow planetoid could be without collapsing in on itself, and the likelihood of a primordial black hole passing through an object on Earth. (If you're worried ...
Still, no primordial black hole has ever been observed. New research co-led by the University at Buffalo proposes thinking both big and small to confirm their existence, suggesting that their ...
It measures 40 billion km across - three million times the size of the Earth - and has been described by scientists as "a monster". The black hole is 500 million trillion km away and was ...