What if everything we know—the stars, the galaxies, the expanding fabric of space-time—isn’t floating in a limitless void, ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

Discover the power of black holes and their jets, and how they impact the formation of stars and potentially habitable worlds ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating.

Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, ...

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

The authors call this model the star grinder. Collision times of stars vs black hole density. (Haas et al., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2025) If this model is correct, then the center of our galaxy ...

This might change our understanding of the universe. Scientists have developed a theory that eliminates the problem of singularity at the centre of black holes. It is one of the greatest mysteries of ...

I had built a black hole model to use as a guide. It could point out environments with the right kind of black holes to produce the greatest number of planets without spraying them with X-rays. Life ...

This artist’s impression illustrates the mechanism that could be at the origin of the powerful bursts of X-ray light seen from a newly awakened black hole named Ansky. ESA; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While ...