As you descend toward a black hole, time slows to a crawl and light bends into oblivion. Cross the horizon, and your fate is sealed - crushed, stretched, and obliterated by tidal forces. Known as ...

Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete for a chance to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Proposals go through ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show! ESA’s XMM-Newton and other X-ray telescopes are capturing massive bursts of ...