How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if you analyze the ashes of the fire, the smoke and the flames to re-create ...

Ever since humans first gazed up at the night sky, the Universe has filled us with awe and wonder. Lately, however, it's also ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out. A fresh analysis of decades-old X-ray black hole jet data has ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...

"GW241011 and GW241110 are among the most novel events among the several hundred that the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network has observed." Scientists have "heard" the symphony of two newborn black holes — each ...

A tiny fraction of known black holes emit X-ray signals that resemble a human "heartbeat." Now, new research may finally explain the strange phenomenon. Stars that wander too close to supermassive ...