Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...

Black holes are as dangerous as they are distant, so scientists set out to simulate one in a lab. What happened next would ...

A new way to measure the temperatures of objects by studying the effect of their black-body radiation on Rydberg atoms has ...

A black fungus that's growing in Chernobyl's infamous No. 4 nuclear reactor is absorbing some of its radiation as part of its ...

Jonny Nelson introduces an animated explanation of black body radiation. All objects are continually absorbing and emitting infrared radiation, for example a heater (radiator). There are no known ...

The Department of Energy said Friday low-altitude helicopter flights to measure background radiation will be done over New ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the ...

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...