"Our findings pave the way for rigorous examinations of black holes and the exploration of new physics in gravity." ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy ...

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Black holes are known for their voracious appetites, consuming everything — even light — that falls inside them with no hope ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.

A regular black hole would have the light ring and the outer horizon, but also an inner horizon, which would enclose a core ...

NASA has discovered the ten oldest galaxies. These galaxies offer a glimpse into the early universe. GN-z11 is the oldest, ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

Astronomers have spotted around a dozen of these weird, rare blasts. Could they be signs of a special kind of black hole?

Stellar black holes, these cosmic monsters born from the collapse of massive stars, play a key role in galaxy dynamics. A ...