At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas periodically falls into the orbit of these bottomless pits, switching the black hole ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

A new recipe for black holes could do away with central singularities, saving the laws of physics from troubling infinities.

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

New research reveals that high-energy radiation from active galactic nuclei could foster life on distant planets by ...

Black hole singularities should not exist, according to theories of quantum mechanics. New tweaks to Einstein's equations of general relativity could finally do away with them, and explain what truly ...

Rotating black holes are the most powerful phenomenon in the known universe. Their powerful gravity radically alters the curvature of spacetime around them, leading to relativistic effects like ...