Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), using Hawking radiation. This groundbreaking approach relies upon watching ...

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

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

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

By using light to emulate the structure of space-time, researchers can better understand black holes – and the exotic objects ...

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...