A recent University graduate has collaborated with a veteran University professor to shed light upon an obscure subject: black holes. Under physics professor emeritus John Wheeler, Daniel Holz '92, a ...

Astronomers announced Wednesday that at last they had captured an image of the unobservable: a black hole, a cosmic abyss so deep and dense that not even light can escape it. For years, and for all ...

Every now and again, a stellar object is caught zooming across space like a white rabbit, extremely late for a very important date. Now, for the first time, astronomers have confirmed a supermassive ...

It could explain how these giant black holes formed before even the first stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Dark matter may ...

A black hole can feel like the most distant and unreal object you could ever think about, yet the way its darkness bends light may one day speak directly to the deepest parts of physics. If you have ...

Despite being “black” and a “hole”, a black hole is not a dark, empty space. In his theory of relativity, Einstein predicted ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...