“We’re not claiming that it’s absolutely going to happen this decade. But there could be a 90% chance that it does." Reading time 2 minutes It’s been a fantastic week for Stephen Hawking’s black hole ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a rare form of exploding star, helping to shed light on one of the most cataclysmic ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

Physicists think we could see such an explosion in the next 10 years - and it would 'revolutionize physics and rewrite the history of the universe'. This artist’s concept takes a fanciful approach to ...

A new study suggests that primordial black holes (PBHs)—hypothetical remnants from the early universe—might be on the verge of an unprecedented cosmic event: an explosion observable with current ...

The bestselling card game that RIT alumnus Elan Lee ’98 (computer science) created nearly 10 years ago is exploding into a universe. Exploding Kittens, the animated series based on the game, premiered ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

See what would happen if every black hole in the universe exploded at once. Trump Revokes TPS, Citing Fraud Concerns Why Erin Andrews’s Comments About Her Sports Career Are Going Viral on Thanksgiving ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

For decades, scientists have tried to measure how fast the universe is expanding. This expansion rate is known as the Hubble ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...