Physicists have started to treat a once-fringe idea with surprising seriousness: that our entire observable universe might be ...

For roughly half a century, astrophysicists have treated the behavior of matter around supermassive black holes as a solved ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

If a new proposal by physicists bears out, the recent detection of a record-setting neutrino could be the first evidence of elusive Hawking radiation. (Nanowerk News) The last gasp of a primordial ...

Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s formula for Pi can help with calculating black holes, studying percolation, or ...

A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about galaxy formation.

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.