The coffin of Pope Francis was sealed in St. Peter's Basilica on Friday evening, ahead of the funeral on Saturday. A changing ...

At the edge of science and imagination lies a question once posed by a Nobel laureate and now revisited with fresh eyes: ...

Black holes are also unlike anything found on Earth or in the solar system in another respect: their sheer power. When surrounded by matter, black holes can be responsible for the most energetic ...

An illustration of a supermassive black hole power AGN at the heart of a distant galaxy | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Clumps of highly ionized gas were the "smoking gun" hinting at the ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...