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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 […]

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.

Gravitational waves carry enormous amounts of energy, but spread out quickly once they leave the source. Could they ever create black holes?

If you bring too much mass or energy together in one location, you’ll inevitably create a black hole. So why didn’t the Big Bang become one?

IceCube scientists have detected high-energy tau neutrinos from deep space, suggesting that neutrino transformations occur not only in lab experiments but also over cosmic distances.

In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?

Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.

JWST has puzzled astronomers by revealing large, bright, massive early galaxies. But the littlest ones pack the greatest cosmic punch.

So far, gravitational waves have revealed stellar mass black holes and neutron stars, plus a cosmic background. So much more is coming.

Today, supermassive black holes and their host galaxies tell a specific story in terms of mass. But JWST reveals a different story early on.

As early as we’ve been able to identify them, the youngest galaxies seem to have large supermassive black holes. Here’s how they were made.

AI can deliver a more equitable and prosperous future — if accompanied by ethical and responsible stewardship.

The first elements in the Universe formed just minutes after the Big Bang, but it took hundreds of thousands of years before atoms formed.

With JWST, Chandra, and gravitational lensing combined, evidence has emerged for the earliest black hole ever. And wow, is it a surprise!