India's INS Sindhurakshak, a Kilo-class submarine, met a tragic end in 2013 when a fire and explosion during weapon loading ...

A black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing. Using a ...

At age 19, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was the first to propose that stars were destined to collapse at the end of their lives. His idea was controversial, but his research paved the way to the ...

This is the gargantuan black hole that lives at the centre of our galaxy, pictured for the very first time. Known as Sagittarius A*, the object is a staggering four million times the mass of our Sun.

WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The conventional wisdom among astronomers is that black holes - those exceptionally dense objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape - form in ...

What does the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy look like?It's a deceptively simple question. Although our local cosmic abyss, named Sgr A* (short for Sagittarius A* ...

Astronomers have a new candidate in their search for the nearest black hole to Earth. It's about 1,000 light-years away, or roughly 9.5 thousand, million, million km, in the Constellation Telescopium.

WASHINGTON : At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called Sagittarius A*. In fact, these objects, which increase in ...