A decade later, she got her first tattoo. Mrs. Pritzker died Saturday ... presided over the trial for the Chicago “Black Sox” game-fixing scandal in which eight White Sox players accused ...

But as eager as he was to please her, and enamored as he was of her God-given talents—one year, at the annual ­Allen & Co. retreat in Sun Valley ... “Some of those black-tie events were ...

"In principle, extraction is possible, and it could be a clean and efficient solution to the complex energy problems we will ...

Stellar mass black holes, a few to dozens of times the mass of the sun, form from collapsing massive stars. Supermassive black holes, on the other hand, are millions to billions of times more ...

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This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be ...

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 ...

Galaxy NGC 4945 in the constellation of Centaurus (main) and galactic winds flowing out from its supermassive black hole (inset). | Credit: ESO/C. Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar — a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic particles. Come too close to one, and you'd get sucked in by its ...

A black hole simulation. © Ute Kraus, Physics education group Kraus, Universität Hildesheim, Space Time Travel, (background image of the milky way: Axel Mellinger ...

Black holes—areas of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape—have long been objects of fascination, with astrophysicists, theoretical physicists and others dedicating ...

According to the team’s calculations, the mass of the LMC’s supermassive black hole is 600,000 times that of the sun. While that might sound huge, the newly identified supermassive black hole ...