NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

Recent studies suggest quantum mechanics supports cosmic censorship, reinforcing black holes' role in hiding singularities.

In 1963, Roy Kerr, a New Zealand-based mathematician proposed a set of equations that explain the properties of rotating black holes as per Einstein’s theory of general relativity. These ...

"According to general relativity, everything can ... according to this theory. This process would be very slow. A black hole with a mass of the sun could take 10^67 years to fully evaporate ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

This process is basically irrelevant for black holes the mass of our sun or larger, but it's vital for their minute cousins. In Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes a universe ...

By studying black holes, says Marika Taylor ... as described by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. So far, these two theories do not agree with each other, and the problem comes ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...

2024 — Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral ...

On Sept. 14, 2015 astronomers “heard” two black holes crashing into each other at close to the speed of light. This discovery ...

Black holes and neutron stars are among the most fascinating and mysterious objects in the universe. These cosmic phenomena ...