NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

Learn more about the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 and how its powerful blast is similar to our sun’s coronal ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Black holes, born from dying stars, are cosmic giants that grow by consuming matter and merging with others. While invisible ...

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered the oldest known black hole in the universe. Nestled within a glowing red galaxy, it dates back 13 billion years and provides a ...

Learn how researchers used Einstein’s theory of general relativity to create the most accurate simulations to date.

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

"This challenges our understanding of black hole and galaxy formation in the early universe." Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...