Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists found that the ...

Q: If the gravity of a black hole is so strong that nothing can escape from it, not even light, how has the Hubble Space Telescope recorded images of gas jets ejected from black holes?

Outside the event horizon of a black hole—the point from beyond which no matter or light can return—superheated gas and dust piles up, warped by gravity into a glowing ring of light.

In 2022, experts from the University of Amsterdam simulated a black hole event horizon to test Stephen Hawking's 1974 radiation theory.

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While ...

This artist’s impression illustrates the mechanism that could be at the origin of the powerful bursts of X-ray light seen from a newly awakened black hole named Ansky. ESA; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...

More than 20 years since its release, Holes remains one of Disney’s most star-studded films to date. The 2003 movie, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Louis Sachar, stars Shia LaBeouf ...