Researchers spotted a second distant star orbiting a well-known black hole and its stellar companion in a never-before-seen ...

If true, this theory could explain how all of the matter in our universe was created.

New research suggests black holes are unstable, challenging Einstein's theory of general relativity and the Kerr solution.

"This is very likely to bring us closer to discovering the true nature of dark energy. Perhaps it will also bring us closer ...

Black holes continue to captivate scientists: they are purely gravitational objects, remarkably simple, yet capable of hiding mysteries that challenge our understanding of natural laws. Most ...

When black holes merge, what happens inside of them is anybody's guess. Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here's how the process unfolds.

Japanese scientists argue that the Milky Way's black hole is shaped like an elongated oval rather than like a "doughnut." ...

The black hole in the newly realized triad, V404 Cygni, is about nine times more massive than the sun and located in the Milky Way around 8,000 light-years from Earth.

What’s on the other side of a black hole? That’s one of the biggest mysteries in space science! Black holes are super strong gravity pits, so once anything crosses the "event horizon" (their point of ...