As civilizations grow and mature, if humanity so far is anything to go by, they require a lot more energy to sustain ...

Every big galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, but scientists are still trying to fully understand how these ...

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

A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

Warner and his co-authors, Iosif Bena and Dimitrios Toulikas, both at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in France, and Anthony Houppe of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, described ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these enigmas, we take what we know about space, time, gravity ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...