When two black holes slam together, they do not simply vanish into darkness, they ring like struck bells and briefly light up ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

Right at the brink of a black hole, gravity twists space and time so violently that ordinary physics starts to fall apart.

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion light-years away. The enormous masses and extreme spins of the black holes ...

Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded ...

Supermassive black holes are an anomaly that sits quietly at the centers of galaxies, holding gas and stars closer with their ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy remains positive and vanishes at ...

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 ...

Astronomers usually detect black holes by looking for X-rays. When gas and dust fall toward a black hole, they heat up and ...

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of life on our world. The moon spins, too.

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...