Yes, vampire stars exist already. But they are apparently a lot more common than we may think.

Stephen Hawking's theory may be proven correct... with lasers. Because lasers are awesome.

You don't want to know what they fart out.

So, NASA's Chandra Laboratory has discovered something that's freaking terrifying: black holes don't necessarily stay in their home galaxies.

For years, scientists assumed that matter being sucked into a black hole was an orderly affair: the matter rapidly went from three-dimensional to the astrophysical equivalent of a flattened beer can with no muss or fuss.

Meet the "omnidirectional electromagnetic absorber".