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 ...

A brilliant new class of cosmic explosions has been uncovered—so powerful they outshine anything scientists have ever seen.

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 ...

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?

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