Albert Einstein must be the most iconic figure in the scientific world. When we think of geniuses, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

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Astronomers have spotted the biggest flare ever seen erupting around a black hole, which also happens to be the most distant ...

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass ...

The most massive stars in the universe are destined to explode as brilliant supernova before collapsing into black holes. Yet ...

N obody does it better than supermassive black hole J2245+3743. It is a bright, active galactic nucleus (AGN), with a mass ...

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) black hole 10 billion light-years away, J2245+3743, made the biggest and brightest flare ever ...