What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...
Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?
so the star core begins to collapse in on itself. If its mass collapses into an infinitely small point, a black hole is born. Packing all of that bulk—many times the mass of our own sun—into ...
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.
MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...
A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.
An artist's concept of the supermassive black hole's mid-infrared flare. Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...