"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but ...

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

The bold question-askers at What If reveal how black holes bend light and allow us to peer into their mysterious depths.

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

The three examples the team highlighted in a new study describe supermassive black holes feasting on stars more than three times as massive as our own sun.The events, dubbed “extreme nuclear ...

Supermassive black holes might naturally replicate the colossal energies of man-made particle colliders possibly even revealing dark matter offering a cosmic shortcut to discoveries that would ...

It’s the largest black hole jet we’ve discovered to date. What makes this particular jet so exciting for astronomers is not only its size. It’s also estimated to be 1.2 billion years old.

For years, scientists have theorized that some black holes could be wormholes, and a new study shows that this space-time mimicry could in fact be possible.