You may think that the likes of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are the smartest people who have ever lived, but they ...

Black holes and soccer balls don't have much in common, but if black holes are curved when kicked, it might say something ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

Black holes are as dangerous as they are distant, so scientists set out to simulate one in a lab. What happened next would ...

The white monster might show up anywhere in the cosmos, so we'll have to wait 100 quatrillion years. White holes, reversed black holes in nature.

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

The supermassive black hole has been sending out flashes that ... That means that the theory could be checked by watching for them with future observatories. The findings are reported in a ...

Years ago, I read Steven Hawking’s wonderful little book, A Brief History of Time, and marvelled at his grasp of the mechanics of our universe. A stand-out was his description of the death of ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) XMM-Newton X-ray space telescope recently discovered rapidly fluctuating X-ray signals coming from the edge of supermassive black hole 1ES 1927+654. Located at ...

As far as supermassive black holes go, the one at the center of the Milky Way is relatively sedate. But, even in its supposed quiescent state, Sagittarius A* is prone to the occasional belch or ...