Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

Despite weighing about a million times the mass of our sun, the black hole wasn't found at the center of its host galaxy, ...

New research challenges the long-accepted notion of singularities in black holes — the point where physics allegedly breaks ...

SciFi books and films never explain how faster-than-light speed works. Wormholes are one solution, but there are problems.

Astronomers are unraveling the mystery behind Ansky, a black hole system emitting powerful, repeating X-ray bursts called ...

Discover how three groundbreaking technologies, including the James Webb Telescope and LIGO, revolutionized our understanding ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

Physicists have created a model of a black hole bomb in the lab for the first time, verifying a theory first proposed more ...

Famed physicist Albert Einstein first theorized that an observer should see a ring of light surrounding the black hole, ...

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which is about as massive as a million suns and sits in a galaxy 270 million light ...