Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

Black holes: Facts about the darkest objects in the universe. Story by Marilyn Perkins • 1mo. B lack holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape.

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

2. Black Holes Come in Miniature, Middling and Mammoth Sizes . Middling-sized stellar-mass black holes are the most common type. They form when a massive dying star, or supernova, explodes and the ...

But black holes are real things in the real Universe; with enough determination, we could reach out and dip a toe into an event horizon. If we can solve the information paradox, ...

For Black Hole Week 2023, we've rounded up our best recent black hole news stories and our favorite facts about black holes from NASA and astronomers worldwide. A 'Fluffy' Black Hole.

Black holes, wormholes, entanglement, Einstein, mysterious islands and new science that sees how the inside of a black hole is secretly on the outside. Skip to main content.

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

A team of scientists have suggested a possible solution to the famously tricky black hole information loss paradox, first proposed by Professor Stephen Hawking nearly 50 years ago. Black holes are ...

Here is the black hole information paradox, a paradox that has bedeviled theoretical physics for over half a century, a paradox whose resolution lays in the unknown lands of quantum gravity, a ...