In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

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

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

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

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

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

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...