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We laugh at things—a play on words, a gesture, a guy falling into a hole—for reasons that we ourselves ... In Duck Soup, Groucho Marx plays Rufus T. Firefly, a wily wisecracker who suddenly ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

Elusive black hole radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking may have influenced the way the universe took shape after the Big ...

Christopher Nolan's 2014 sci-fi movie gets analyzed by a real astrophysicist, who sings the movie's praises despite ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.