Scientists have created an optical device capable of mimicking black holes and the still hypothetical white holes. This ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

A black hole bomb - an idea first proposed in 1969 - has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

Federal investigators arrested 18 individuals last month as part of a sweeping operation that targeted the illegal ...

The basic idea is that you send a beam of light around a pair of black holes spinning around each other prior to a merger, or a single black hole spinning quickly, and use the higher-energy ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

Unless you drop it or have a habit of cross-threading screws, the Seta A2 will probably outlive your next build and the one ...

Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that.

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled scientists, a study said ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our Sun) lurk at the centre of most galaxies, their very nature makes them difficult to spot and study. In contrast to ...