The black hole Gargantua is at the center of Interstellar. The 12 potentially habitable planets that can save humanity are ...

Nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event horizon — yet new research suggests it may secretly leak information. That leakage would appear in subtle signatures in gravitational waves, and now ...

Black holes are among themost enigmatic and mysterious objects in the Universe, and our understanding of them is still limited by the extreme challenges of studying them. However, a new proposal, ...

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole. Since then, it has been boosting the resolution and filling in the details ...

A new mathematical model of a wormhole suggests that two black holes can be “cut and pasted.” Cut and paste is an official concept in math, referring to two surfaces that may be transposable. In this ...

An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / M. Zamani The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a phenomenon once thought ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. "They are often seen as sort of cosmic vacuum cleaners, just sucking in all the material gas and stars that stray close," says Priyamvada ...

Researchers believe the 'ultramassive' black hole is big enough to be the largest of its kind ever detected. Black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things like tangled-up ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things ...