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The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don’t physically exist. Is he right?

A new paper strengthens the theory that black holes are like balls of space yarn and debunks the idea of “firewalls”.

Wormholes might very well be a key feature to our cosmos.

The annual rite of February’s African-American History Month in America feels more and more like a mixed blessing with each passing year. On one hand, setting aside time to learn […]

10 years ago, LIGO first began directly detecting gravitational waves. Now better than ever, it’s revealing previously unreachable features.

In this excerpt from “Facing Infinity,” Jonas Enander examines how John Michell conceived of “dark stars,” or massive bodies with enough gravity to trap light, all the way back in 1783.

10 years ago, LIGO saw its first gravitational wave. After 218 detections, our view of black holes has changed forever. Can this era endure?

At the center of Hubble’s famous “cosmic horseshoe,” a very heavy supermassive black hole has been robustly measured. How is it possible?

Two supermassive black holes on an inevitable death spiral push the limits of Einstein’s relativity. New observations reveal even more.

Once you cross a black hole’s event horizon, there’s no going back. But inside, could creating a singularity give birth to a new Universe?

With over 300 high-significance gravitational wave detections, we now have a huge unsolved puzzle. Will we invest in finding the solution?

The corporate world is no cake walk — as a leader you need a framework that can equip you for the cross-pressures.

If it weren’t for the intricate rules of quantum physics, we wouldn’t have formed neutral atoms “only” ~380,000 years after the Big Bang.

If all massive objects emit Hawking radiation, not just black holes alone, then everything is unstable, even the Universe. Can that be true?

According to Stephen Hawking, spontaneously emitted radiation should cause all black holes to decay. But we’ve never seen it: not even once.

What can drugs teach us about consciousness?

Just 165,000 light-years away, the Large Magellanic Cloud is suspected to house a supermassive black hole. At last, evidence has arrived.

Seven years ago, an outburst in a distant galaxy brightened and faded away. Afterward, a new supermassive black hole jet emerged, but how?

Many of us look at black holes as cosmic vacuum cleaners: sucking in everything in their vicinity. But it turns out they don’t suck at all.

In the year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here’s where we are.

It’s been 65 years since Richard Feynman saw “plenty of room” in the nano-world. Are we finally getting down there?

Gravitational waves are the last signatures that are emitted by merging black holes. What happens when these two phenomena meet in space?

Black holes are the most massive individual objects, spanning up to a light-day across. So how do they make jets that affect the cosmic web?

Black holes encode information on their surfaces, but evaporate away into Hawking radiation. Is that information preserved, and if so, how?

With the discovery of Porphyrion, we’ve now seen black hole jets spanning 24 million light-years: the scale of the cosmic web.

A recent paper in the journal Physical Review Letters claims to prove that a “kugelblitz” is not possible.

Even in the very early Universe, there were heavy, supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. How did they get so big so fast?

Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.

We know of stellar mass and supermassive black holes, but intermediate mass ones have long proved elusive. Until now.