It sounds like something from the latest science fiction blockbuster. But scientists have revealed the terrifyingly high odds a black hole will explode in the next 10 years.

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Global cooling associated with the impact of supernova remnants may have affected plants and animals, including species related to humans.

Artist's impression of a supernova. By ESO/M. Kornmesser/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY My hypothesis is that remnants of a supernova – an exploding star – had an impact on the Earth’s past climate, causing ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted detailed multicolor photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN ...

Francis Thackeray has received funding from the National Research Foundation. Global cooling that happened millions of years ago was thought to be the result of ocean currents. He suggests instead it ...

My hypothesis is that remnants of a supernova—an exploding star —had an impact on Earth's past climate, causing global cooling, between 3 million and 2.6 million years ago and that this indirectly ...

A companion star may have stripped silicon layers. This provided a new window into stellar death. Astronomers have observed the inner layers of a dying star through a rare type of stellar explosion ...