The borderlands of black holes ought to be chaotic spaces where the rate at which matter is drawn across into oblivion is ...

For decades, black holes have stood as the most enigmatic objects in the universe, defying our understanding of space, time, ...

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

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

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

The scientist who discovered the black hole at the center of our galaxy reflects on social media and the unpredictable power ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...

Figure showing sections through marginal surfaces in a ‘snapshot’ of the researchers’ simulation. The apparent horizons are the three dark lines (the newly formed one is outside and contains the two ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object with mass pulls on every other object—a result that explained falling ...

What would a human see and feel while falling into a black hole? In this exclusive excerpt of his new book, "Facing Infinity," author and astrophysicist Jonas Enander tells us in terrifying detail.

Near the middle of the Milky Way, there lives a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A) that any day now might eat a gas cloud (called G2) that’s floating towards it at 5 million miles ...