These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

On Wednesday, April 10th, the world was treated to something unprecedented – the first-ever image of a black hole! Specifically, the image captured the Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) at the ...

Black holes generally come in two sizes: big and really big. As they are so dense, they are measured in terms of mass rather than size, and astronomers call these two groups of stellar mass black ...

Scientists make model of 'black hole bomb' that could release more energy than 'a trillion nukes' Fortunately the version we have now is just a toy, but it proves the concept works ...

Black holes are notoriously difficult to detect because they absorb all light, rendering them invisible to traditional telescopes. Typically, astronomers spot them through gravitational lensing, where ...

A group of physicists has proposed a new way of thinking about black holes by mapping out intricate “supermazes” – theoretical structures that provide a fresh blueprint for understanding the ...

3D rendering of a rapidly spinning black hole’s accretion disk and a resulting black hole-powered jet. Credit: Ore Gottlieb et al. (2024) Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and ...

We don’t know where the solutions may lie. Sure, we probably don’t live inside a black hole, but perhaps research in that direction may give us a surprising clue.

Artist’s rendering of a black hole surrounded by a highly magnetized thin disk. Credit: Steven Burrows/Prasun Dhang, edited Black holes are more than just cosmic vacuum cleaners — they are powerful ...