"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

Black holes, once purely theoretical, are now observable phenomena, offering insights into the universe. Their intense ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.