Locals in this town have been rocked. In Thailand, mysterious black objects falling from the sky have puzzled locals. A couple in Phatthalung, a province near the Malaysian border, discovered the ...

Astronomers have been tracking a mysterious object near the center of the galaxy for decades, and now a new study has shed light on its identity – and its eventual fate in the coming years, when it ...

Why they're black: Their gravitational pull is so extreme that even light can't escape Black holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape. Rather than being ...

The phenomenon known as a "black hole" is making news this week, as astronomers have captured the first direct evidence of a black hole spinning — providing groundbreaking insights into the universe’s ...

A graphic showing an object (in red) as it approaches a black hole. In the center of our galaxy, the black hole's intense gravity is stretching apart this cloud of gas and dust, dubbed "X7." Credit: W ...

In order: space, space with a black hole in it, space with a theorized topological soliton. Gif: PIERRE HEIDMANN/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY A team of physicists mathematically built an exotic object ...

Astronomers using the Very Large Array (VLA) have spotted a curious object orbiting Cygnus A, a famous supermassive black hole and one of the strongest sources of radio waves in the universe. The rest ...