How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...
Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...
A team of computational astrophysicists has developed a simulation that explains the behavior of matter around black holes.
Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.
Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...
In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...
Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...
Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...
Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...
In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...
Black holes are the gravitational monsters of the Universe. They are so powerful that nothing, even light, can escape their ...