In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

This supports a theory suggesting that outbursts launched by black holes can cause the hot gas around them to cool and form relatively fine filaments of still-warm gas. The warm gas falls toward ...

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Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen ...

The team, led by MIT astronomer Megan Masterson, suggests that these pulses may originate from a white dwarf star, a dense remnant of a dead star, that is perilously orbiting near the black hole's ...