New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

The new president of Guernsey's Health and Social Care Committee (HSC) has conceded there was "no political oversight" of the ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility and other forecasters are divided over how strong UK growth will be. Who's right will ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.