Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red ...

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

If you've ever wondered what would actually happen if a microscopic black hole tunneled straight through your body, answers ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...

Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed up by a pulp-era sci-fi writer. Which, ...

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes theorized to have formed shortly after the Big Bang. Compared to black holes ...

The tidal forces produced by a tiny black hole would have an interesting effect on human bodies.