One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

A controversial theory suggests the observable universe is the result of matter rebounding after the collapse of a black hole ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

For years, scientists have theorized that some black holes could actually be wormholes, and a new study shows that this space-time mimicry could in fact be possible.

Study reveals that high-energy cosmic rays are born in magnetic fields during neutron star mergers, a prelude to black holes.

More information: Kota Hayashi et al, Jet from Binary Neutron Star Merger with Prompt Black Hole Formation, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.211407.

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...