It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

Imagine you’re standing in front of a closed door. Behind it is a teenager’s bedroom, and your task is to rate how messy it is on a scale of 1 to 10. But here’s the twist: you can’t open the door – ...

The spark plugs inside your car's gas engine are remarkably durable and could last for dozens of oil changes before needing to be replaced. For components that withstand intense heat, pressure, ...

A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a cosmic outburst with the light of 10 trillion suns, according to a new study. The black hole flare, as the phenomenon is ...

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, that's what defines a black hole, right? Well, it depends on what you mean by ...

How often you change the spark plugs in your car depends on the recommendations of its manufacturer. Typically, it'll be somewhere around the 100,000-mile mark for new vehicles, but it could be much ...

Multnomah County will redirect around $20 million to preserve homeless shelters and housing programs threatened by a significant reduction in state funding. The county Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 ...

This gave the researchers an answer to a question that has been open for 40 years: whether black-hole pairs exist in the first place. "For the first time, we managed to get an image of two black holes ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have detected what may be the most massive black ...

North Carolina State Treasurer Brad Briner said addressing the state's looming health plan deficit was one of his highest priorities. North Carolina addressed a looming $1.3 billion deficit in health ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Austin Collins was looking out for his future when he decided to leave Louisville. The long-term. And the short-term. He is still chasing his NFL hopes in his final season of college ...