Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

For decades, black holes have been the ultimate cosmic cliffhanger: regions of space where gravity wins so completely that ...

Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part it is because they have a tendency to ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

Falling into a black hole may sound like something from a science fiction movie, but it is a very real phenomenon studied by ...

Astronomers from the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) and colleagues have determined how ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion ...

Falling into a black hole means facing extreme stretching, known as spaghettification, due to immense tidal forces. While ...

By constructing these so-called Einstein-Rosen caterpillar wormholes, researchers offer a tangible way to imagine what the inside of a typical black hole might look like. Rather than being smooth or ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things ...