There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They’ve certainly sparked and ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...

In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

Matteo Paz built a machine-learning algorithm in high school to analyze heaps of data for NASA. He just won a $250,000 ...

The discovery, made with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), contains several "missing link" intermediate-mass black holes. This is both the largest sample of dwarf galaxies with ...

Black holes—areas of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape—have long been objects of fascination, with astrophysicists, theoretical physicists and others dedicating ...

Languages: English and Italian. Scientists at Dartmouth and the University of Exeter have discovered that radiation emitted by supermassive black holes can have a surprising, nurturing effect on life.

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant ...

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a team of scientists have compiled the largest sample ever of dwarf galaxies that host an actively feeding black hole ...