Black holes are among the most mysterious and influential phenomena in the cosmos. They hold the key to understanding the ...

Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the inevitability of singularities, which are obscured by black holes ...

“Familiar” black holes, if you can call them that, typically form in the wake of dying stars that collapse inwards.

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...

A breakthrough discovery has recently rocked the world of astronomy: a jet of matter ejected from a massive black hole in the ...

At the bottom of the chart are the fundamental particles—quarks, bosons (eg Higgs, w +, w -, z ), protons, neutrons, ...

Understanding quantum black holes may explain why we don’t see the end of space and time. A team of researchers takes us ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

Astronomers have discovered a unique black hole jet collision in the galaxy Centaurus A, producing a V-shaped X-ray emission.

Some physicists say the lingering questions about our universe could be solved by hypothetical objects called primordial black holes. New research claims the evidence of their existence could be right ...

The first-ever photographed black hole emits an extraordinary gamma-ray flare, billions of times more energetic than visible ...