When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

A monstrous black hole in a distant galaxy has earned itself a nickname worthy of a science-fiction horror movie for its gluttonous feasting on any stars that dare get near. Meet "Space Jaws." NASA ...

When stars cease to fuse hydrogen at the end of their lifetime, they collapse in on themselves, condensing into a ...

"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole." Without a doubt, since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has ...

Black holes are well known for swallowing everything around them, which is probably why they get talked about so often. On the flip side, white holes are their mysterious opposite. These theoretical ...

New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white holes', ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the universe, defying our current understanding of these cosmic giants. New ...

Ever wondered what would happen if you fell into a black hole? According to Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, you would be crushed by the powerful gravity of its singularity: the center of a ...

An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making scientists ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass was ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

Black holes are often considered terrors of the known universe. Supermassive black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light doesn't have enough energy to ...