"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant galaxy. This sudden activation provides a unique ...

A team of researchers has engineered a groundbreaking optical device that mimics the physics of black holes and their ...

Located at the center of the galaxy SDSS1335+0728, in the constellation Virgo, and more than 300 million light-years away ...

"One explanation is that the Universe was born rotating. That explanation agrees with theories such as black hole cosmology, ...

Black hole jets may accelerate and brighten with distance, challenging old models, according to new EHT observations.

Ansky, a once-dormant black hole, is now emitting powerful X-ray bursts, giving scientists a rare chance to study its ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While ...

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

If you were going to design an object to preserve mystery while being utterly troubling, you couldn't do much better than a black hole. First, the outer boundary of these cosmic titans is a one ...