"If you're on the surface of the earth, and you go straight up, you have to go fast enough ... At first, Scherrer started ...

"One explanation is that the Universe was born rotating. That explanation agrees with theories such as black hole cosmology, ...

At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

Throughout the 10-day campaign, the global telescope will also study the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87, which lies 53.5 million light-years from Earth. That black hole ...

But recently astronomers have used data collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft to detect three previously unknown black holes and, it turns out, are the closest known to Earth.

We know that regular supernovas pose no existential threat to life on Earth in the ... can escape its pull. The black hole has a one-way surface, called an event horizon, into which objects ...

To make Earth into a black hole, for instance, you'd have to shrink it to less than an inch across. But real black holes are much larger than that and pack way more mass than Earth. Here's just ...

In these loops, charged particles are kept contained to Earth’s vicinity,” Grossman says. But at the poles, some field lines shoot out into space, allowing charged particles to escape.

A huge international team of scientists have just announced the discovery of yet another gravitational wave signal sent out by the violent collision of two black holes ... felt on Earth on Jan ...