"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time ...

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

A high school student in New York has stumbled onto a massive discovery — a cosmic light echo possibly spanning twice the ...

One presentation of Einstein's field equations painted as a mural on the wall of the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden, the Netherlands. Photo taken in July 2022. (Image credit: Robert Lea) Molina ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time literally no longer make sense." A team of scientists has developed a recipe ...

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show.

This dwarf galaxy, a satellite of our galaxy, may have its own supermassive black hole. Evidence for this hidden cosmic titan was delivered via hypervelocity stars at the edge of the Milky Way ...

And in a recent experiment, scientists decided to look deep into a black hole that's way closer to home — where they were met with an explosive light show. In the most detailed look at that ...

We’ve even caught one on camera in 2019, when we finally took a direct picture of the “event horizon” that marks the point of no escape from a black hole. But why do we care? Black holes ...

The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, and the acoustic waves coming from it have been transposed up 57 and 58 octaves so they're audible to human hearing. The result ...

Sam Temple describes the history of learning about Alexander Faribault as a black hole — something he learned from Sue ...