This eye-catching astronaut photo shows Yellowstone's eponymous lake covered in a thick blanket of snow, making it look like a colorless, featureless void in the surrounding landscape. But below this ...

MERRILL, Wis. (WSAW) - A six-by-six-foot hole cut into the ice near a boat landing on Alexander Lake has created a safety hazard for snowmobilers, anglers, and ATV enthusiasts who frequently use the ...

There was a lot more understanding but not much support for a plan to drop Detroit Lake to the lowest levels in its history after a series of meetings this week in Detroit and Salem. Anglers, ...

A hole near the train tracks doesn’t look like much from the surface, just another dark break in the ground you’d normally walk past without thinking, but the second you start descending it feels like ...

Deep dish pizza is synonymous with Chicago. A bread-like base topped with layers of mozzarella and chunky tomato sauce is the perfect fortification, some might argue, against the notoriously long and ...

A black hole inside a distant spiral galaxy is devouring material from the universe around it and creating winds at speeds never before seen by astronomers. The European Space Agency said that the ...

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive black hole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light Supermassive black holes are the monsters of the universe, so it is perhaps only ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole NGC 3783 at speeds reaching up to 20% of the speed of light. During a ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

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In other words, the matter traveled at 20% the speed of light. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Supermassive black holes are ...