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A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

Scientists detect a 20-day wobble from a star-shredding black hole, confirming spacetime twisting predicted by Einstein.

A sudden black hole flare unleashed stunning, near light speed winds that echo the Sun’s most powerful eruptions.

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, discovered a rapid explosion of matter around the supermassive black hole ...

Record-breaking ultrafast outflow (UFO) winds from a supermassive black hole flung matter across the universe close to the speed of light.

The supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 was found to be ejecting a unique blast caught by leading X-ray space telescopes.

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

Quasi-periodic eruptions near supermassive black holes offer insights into extreme gravitational environments and accretion ...

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...