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

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

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 ...

Researchers aim to explore hidden aspects of the universe that could fundamentally transform our understanding of the cosmos ...

Two of the universe’s most extreme objects—black holes and neutron stars—can spiral into cosmic collisions that crack crusts, ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

“This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole’s behavior in real time, using X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and NASA’s NICER, Chandra and Swift,” said Dr. Lorena ...

Black holes aren’t just cosmic oddities—they’re cracks in our idea of reality. So argues Johns Hopkins University philosopher William Egginton, ... Black Holes Show Space and Time Are Not Fundamental ...

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 ...

A chilling new discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests our universe may be living inside a colossal black hole ...

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