At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

A controversial theory suggests the observable universe is the result of matter rebounding after the collapse of a black hole ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Has your black hole knowledge been keeping up? Try as you might, you can’t escape the pull of our black hole quiz, so it’s ...

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly ...

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day.. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...

One of my favorite celestial objects in the universe is the black hole. Granted, I'm an astrophysicist. But I know I'm not alone. People love black holes. They seem to hold a near-mythic status in ...

"The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, has a mass of approximately four million times that of the Sun, but it only looks like a tiny dot from Earth ...

A black hole with a mass 70 times greater than the Sun was discovered, leaving scientists stunned. "Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our Galaxy, according to most of the current ...