"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 ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

Intriguingly, ultralight dark matter might be able to turn into photons (light) — and it's through this process that the ...

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 ...

The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...

I find all these constructions very interesting, and this latest one is very interesting as well.” Supermazes would inhabit black holes that weren’t truly black holes. Instead they’d be fuzzballs: ...

The black hole, embedded in a disk of dust and gas ... We know that some AGN formed early in the history of the universe. With their enormous power, they almost certainly affected how the universe ...