When British physicist Roger Penrose suggested in 1969 that energy could be pulled from a rotating black hole, it sparked a ...

"Our findings pave the way for rigorous examinations of black holes and the exploration of new physics in gravity." ...

It is called a black hole, because it acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. According to the theory of ...

For the first time, physicists have created a "black hole bomb" in the lab, providing evidence for the "Zel’dovich effect" ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

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Scientists have been left baffled after spotting a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way, without any orbiting stars. Although this black hole is seven times more massive than our sun, it ...

2024 — Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

A study published in Physical Review Letters outlines a new approach for extracting information from binary systems by ...

Roger Penrose suggested black holes might release energy. He proposed that near a rotating black hole’s outer zone—called the ...