Max Planck is widely considered the father of quantum physics because he introduced the groundbreaking idea that energy comes ...

For hundreds of years, the only time mankind could see the Sun’s corona, which is the highly hot and ethereal outer ...

Most, when prodded, give a playful shrug at the curious phenomenon at Long Island's Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy ...

MAY 12, 2022 — Astronomers today unveiled the first-ever image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This is only the second time in history that an image ...

The study proposes that black hole singularities, traditionally seen as endpoints, could instead be beginnings, transitioning into white holes that eject matter, energy, and time.

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show.

There’s a pretty hot party raging in the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Using new observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astrophysicists found that the ...

On January 22, Russian astronomers observed a rare phenomenon on the Sun: a ghostly black structure formed at the center of the solar disk and was partially ejected into space.

In 2018, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed that the black hole’s corona — a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma — suddenly disappeared, before reassembling months later.

The PPPL focuses on using plasma, often called “the fourth state of matter,” to tackle the world’s toughest science and technology challenges. In this episode of Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond, ...