Black holes are regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, even light, can escape. Einstein's theory of ...

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s ...

Some black holes could have tamer origins—in the folds of unusual "spacetime crystals" that researchers finally managed to ...

An unusually massive black hole in the very early universe may be a kind of exotic, star-less black hole first theorised by Stephen Hawking. In August, Boyuan Liu at the University of Cambridge and ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

The most massive black holes in the Universe detected by the ripples they make in space time were not born directly from ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

Physicists have detected the biggest ever merger of colliding black holes. The discovery has major implications for researchers’ understanding of how such bodies grow in the Universe. “It’s super ...

This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more. This discovery upends conventional wisdom about such tidal disruption ...