SCIENTISTS have discovered the biggest black hole merger ever recorded, as two massive spacetime ripples spiral into each ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The very concept of black holes seems improbable. Albert Einstein infamously refused to believe they could exist, even though ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

Black holes are among the most enigmatic and fascinating objects in the universe. Their sheer existence challenges our understanding of the cosmos and raises deep questions about the nature of reality ...

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper ...

"However, there is a singularity at the center of black holes where the laws of physics as we know them break down." At those singularities, the density of black holes goes to infinity. Physicists don ...

Related: Black holes: Everything you need to know Singularity-minded: Physicists want one thing. Einstein's theory of general relativity states that objects with mass curve the very fabric of ...

However, it turns out that all three questions can be connected by a surprisingly simple hypothesis: dark matter consists of the remnants of a very special kind of black hole – a black hole without a ...