Black holes don’t just bend space and time; they expose where our understanding of reality starts to break.  In this video, ...

For years, strange red dots in James Webb images left scientists puzzled. New research shows they are young black holes ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

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

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought was possible. Reading time 4 minutes When LIGO broke news of an ...

The center of the Milky Way twinkles in microwave radiation, seen in new data obtained by astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This study could help ...

James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest little red dots are early supermassive black holes, providing insights into cosmic evolution within the first billion years of the universe.

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...

Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in the universe. A team from NTNU suggests that colossal winds from ...

Astronomers have long described black holes as cosmic traps so powerful that nothing — not even a beam of light — can claw its way free. Yet even these extreme objects have limits, and scientists say ...

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of life on our world. The moon spins, too.