Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that.

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren’t formed by collapsing stars. Instead, they emerged when extremely ...

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ...

Or at least, that's exactly how I felt before I left for Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Everyone I knew only had great things to say about this not-so-small-anymore small town. Jackson Hole is considered ...

SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave him chills. Black holes themselves — so gravitationally powerful not even light can escape their grasp — produce no ...

“Once a hole is there, you can use it for other things,” says Andreas Hejnol at Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep ...

WOODS HOLE — An unease has settled over this small-town community of scientists lately like the fog that crept across the upper Cape on a recent March morning. It’s difficult to see around the ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research published in Nature Astronomy from an ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into being. As Stephen Hawking predicted, black holes don’t only draw ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope discovered that the rotation of the galaxies goes against what ...

That it's a tribute to the old school days of Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin, who four decades ago poured in buckets underneath sweat-soaked T-shirts on ... back a shaggy black mop of hair.