For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

Imagine a cosmic sledgehammer hurtling through space at nearly the speed of light ... At its heart sits a supermassive black hole launching powerful jets of high-energy particles that stretch ...

Black holes form when a huge amount of matter is squeezed into a very small space. Cram enough matter into a given radius, and it can create a gravity well so deep that nothing can get out.

The Earth would become a black hole. For those who want to know more: black holes warp space-time. It is as if they were tearing deep troughs in an imaginary net in which space and time are interwoven ...

Space.com was on duty all year to bring you the major developments in the science of the universe's most fascinating entities: black holes. Our fascination with black holes is pretty ...

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

The quasar, named APM 08279 5255, contains water vapour equating to 140 trillion times the volume of Earth’s oceans ...

This vast reservoir resides near a supermassive black hole, approximately 20 billion times more massive than our sun.

Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the universe, and a new mission proposal suggests launching a space telescope specifically to study them. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT ...

is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...