We have a hard time explaining the existence of supermassive black holes in the early universe. It looks like there just isn't enough time to make them from "normal" processes. So maybe it was ...

Did you know some of the brightest sources of light in the sky come from the regions around black holes in the centers of ...

Physicists say they've built the first-ever "black hole bomb," a concept that dates back to the late 1960s. As New Scientist ...

TIL I learned about gravastars (aka a gravitational vacuum star), theoretical objects related to black holes. Both are massive & ...

Roger Penrose suggested black holes might release energy. He proposed that near a rotating black hole’s outer zone—called the ...

Beyond proving the theory, this result has broader implications. Superradiance — the process of extracting energy from spin — ...

12, 2025 — New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white ... at Center of Galaxy Could Reveal New Kind of Dark Matter Mar. 10, 2025 — A mysterious phenomenon at the center ...

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

Did you know some of the brightest sources of light in the sky come from the regions around black holes in the centers of ...

Webb discovered an early cosmic boom of "red monster" galaxies, surprising even seasoned researchers who thought they knew ...

The NASA team behind the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – due to launch in 2027 – have shared the designs for the ...