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

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Space-time curvature around a black hole might sound abstract, but understanding it is crucial to grasp the nature of these ...

A cosmic leviathan stirs across the great, quiet expanse of the early universe. About 12 billion years old, a supermassive ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

Crucially, this bounce occurs entirely within the framework of general relativity, which applies on large scales such as ...

Black holes just got a lot more intriguing. According to new research, some black holes found in the universe may be kinks in space-time, tangles of light that aren’t actually black holes, but ...

A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While famous for devouring anything and everything in its gravitational ...

The black hole in question lies in the distant Seyfert galaxy PG1211+143, about 1.2 billion light years from Earth. Using the ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?