Marian “Cindy” Friend Pritzker, the matriarch of one of Chicago’s most powerful families, has died at the age of 101. She was ...

Birds are widely regarded as symbols of freedom and eternity due to their ability to soar into the skies. Their symbolism exists all over the world as part of different cultures, religions, and ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for a weekend aurora show, experts predict.

Stellar-mass black holes typically weigh about 10 times more than our sun, though scientists have discovered a few that are significantly larger. Supermassive black holes are the biggest in the ...

I would lose my hair." It was believed that black holes are made from the end states of massive stars, probably 10 times the size of the sun. When these stars have lived their life, they explode ...

Our understanding of black holes, time and the mysterious dark energy that dominates the universe could be revolutionised, as new University of Sheffield research helps unravel the mysteries of the ...

Five decades ago, famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking theorized that the Big Bang may have flooded the universe with tiny ...

Even light wasn't immune, and Einstein gave the idea of black holes—which dated back to John Michell's "dark stars"—a coherent mathematical foundation. In 1936, Einstein predicted ...