If black holes follow the example of the legendary Manchester United winger David Beckham and "bend like Beckham," if ... if they have any similarity to light or, more accurately, electromagnetic ...

Having previously observed the bright halo of matter whipping around the black hole at near-light-speeds ... (EHT), provide the most detailed, real-time look yet at how matter swirls around ...

Find out why Christopher Nolan's movie Interstellar remains a cinematic masterpiece even a decade after its initial release.

Black holes ... low-energy X-ray light. Previous surveys had only found that under 15% of supermassive black holes are obscured to this extent. Now, experts believe the real share could be nearer ...

It is 1964, somewhere near Birbeck College. A thirty-three-year-old Roger Penrose and the famously effusive mathematical ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

A computer-based study is simulating the behaviour of massive cosmic jets in a virtual universe to help us understand how ...

In effect, gravitational lensing produces an extremely large-scale version of watching light bend around our invisible black hole. It gets ... particle to be real. Researchers are trying to ...

American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk collided in Washington, D.C. Authorities believe all 67 on board both aircraft died.