Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas stretching to the right is what remains of a ...

The massive Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, co-presented with museums in Barcelona and Brussels, will head to Europe after March 30. 🎧 Click the red listen button to hear WBEZ’s interview with ...

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How to say “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica,” an ambitious, magnificent, jam-packed survey currently on view at the Art Institute? Put the stress on the first syllable and you ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Imagine the formation of a black hole and you’ll probably envision a massive star running out of fuel and collapsing in on itself. Yet the chaotic conditions of the early universe may ...

Mysterious donut-shaped clouds of dust found near some gigantic black holes could be the cosmic remains from violent, high-speed collisions between planets and asteroids, according to a new study. An ...

Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the atmospheric composition ...