Black holes are one of our universe’s greatest mysteries, with no one really understanding what happens once an object passes ...

The Event Horizon Telescope has captured an image of a ring of light around the Black Abyss, a black hole about 55 million light years away.

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

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

Two of the universe’s most extreme objects—black holes and neutron stars—can spiral into cosmic collisions that crack crusts, ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

A researcher throws cold water on a recent effort that purported to eliminate black holes' greatest and most enduring mystery — the existence of their central singularity.

The famous black hole M87 keeps surprising us. New research calculates its spin speed to be at 80% of the theoretical limit, with matter falling into its maw even faster.

Universe may have started inside black hole, not from Big Bang Theory suggests our universe ‘bounced’ from black hole inside larger ‘parent universe’ Vishwam Sankaran ...

New research challenges everything we know about the Big Bang. A new theory has emerged, called the black hole universe, that offers a radically different view of cosmic origins ...

In a major breakthrough, scientists have simulated in unprecedented detail how a neutron star cracks just seconds before being swallowed by a black hole. The simulation, led by Caltech ...

The findings suggest black holes could provide a cheaper, natural alternative to billion-dollar particle colliders, if we can figure out how to harness them. Skip to content Gizmodo ...