It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar created a black hole that would later turn out to be fairly scientifically accurate.

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational wave that lasted just one-tenth of a second. The signal, known as ...

Could the vast universe in which we live actually be the interior of a black hole within a larger universe? The idea, which ...

John Preskill, a black hole and quantum gravity expert at Caltech, says the new traversable wormhole comes as a surprise, with implications for the black hole information paradox and black hole ...

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 ...

The universe is big, weird, and filled with unexpected things. It’s the reason we send space probes to far reaches of our solar system and into deep space, it’s the reason we build telescopes, and ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar was a phenomenon in 2014. Set in the future, Earth has been struck by a global crop blight. Former NASA pilot... Why 'Interstellar' has the most accurate black hole in ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

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 ...

Spin in a black hole produces an effect called "frame dragging," an effect where space-time is curved around the spinning black hole by the rotation of the black hole. This profoundly affects ...

An artist’s rendition of a black hole surrounded by a glowing accretion disc of material, the light from which is warped by the strong gravity. In principle, energy could be harvested from a spinning ...