What happens when you cross the point of no return?
Black holes form when massive stars exhaust their nuclear fuel and collapse under their own gravity. This collapse…
Star Tries to Swallow a Black Hole, Ignites One of the Strangest Supernovas Ever Seen
Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you…
This Might Be the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Discovered
Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated mass 36 billion…
Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible
The largest black hole ever detected is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. It exists near…
Daring New Plan Lays Out Mission to a Black Hole
Fifty-six years after Disney filmmakers imagined what it would be like for a spacecraft crew to journey to…
The Webb telescope saw something no one was supposed to see; key details inside
The James Webb Space Telescope recently opened a new window onto one of the universe’s more mysterious secrets.…
Newly Discovered ‘Infinity Galaxy’ Could Prove How Ancient Supermassive Black Holes Formed
A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding…
Scientists Baffled by Mysterious Clouds in Center of the Milky Way
In the center of our galaxy, gigantic, balloon-like structures of high-energy radiation extend thousands of light-years above and…