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Rachel Reeves is facing difficult choices before her second budget next month and has been busy preparing the ground. In a significant shift in the government’s narrative, Reeves has – at last – stressed the long-term damage done to the UK…

I just spent the last hour feeding a black hole instead of doing what I was supposed to be doing, work. And, no, that's not code for anything. I was literally feeding a black hole in the Steam Next Fest demo for a game called A Game About…

It's every vacationer's worst nightmare. Being on the cusp of a dream trip that cost a fortune, only for it to be ruined by a canceled flight.

The longest-duration burst of gamma rays on record — lasting seven hours — might have marked the explosion of a star eaten by a black hole.

A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s destruction. For the first time, astronomers have detected a tidal disruption event (TDE), when a black hole destroys a…

The original black hole estimated around £20 bn was blamed on the previous government, though more than half of it was higher public sector pay awards made by the new government. This was more than covered by large tax rises in the first…

For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest-changing radio signals ever recorded. The event, AT 2024tvd, revealed delayed bursts of energy months after the…

The so-called tidal disruption event also produced two puzzling delayed outbursts.

OpenAI hires black hole theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca, the first person to join the OpenAI for Science initiative led by Kevin Weil, to shape its research — Prize-winning black hole theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca has joined…

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright radio signals.

In a recent study, theoretical physicists at Goethe University Frankfurt described the origin of powerful jets emanating from the core regions of galaxies using a series of complex simulations.

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List has named the seven writers and projects chosen for its 2025 Writers Lab. They are Cristina Kinon (Dumb Luck), Melanie Rish-Ho (Slab Serif), Joe Veix (The Hole Story), Karna Warrior (Chomolungma), Rob Norman (I…

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a new light.

Scientists have begun to piece together the origin story of a cataclysmic collision between two black holes that met their fate on an unusual orbital path. The merger, designated GW200208_222617 (that really rolls of the tongue,) stands…