With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

A new study has been accepted by the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics that proposes two new models of black ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable insights for particle physics ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Just three numbers—that’s all it takes to completely, unequivocally, 100 percent describe a black hole in general relativity. If I tell you the mass, electric charge, and spin (i.e., angular ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Unlike typical black holes, which have a spherical shape, a planar black hole's boundary is a flat, two-dimensional surface. The researchers' ongoing work suggests that the same mechanism could ...

Coming soon: black holes with 50% more detail. Coming soon: black holes with 50% more detail. News. ... and allows 0.87-millimeter observations to be taken from the surface of Earth. ...

We observed the black hole multiple times throughout 2023 and 2024, ... These short and faint flickers are like the small ripples that fluctuate randomly at the surface of a body of water.

K arl Schwarzschild first stumbled upon black holes in 1916, but for a long time they weren’t really a thing. “Black holes were discovered as a purely geometric object — in a sense, just empty space.

A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom, but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid. Created ...