New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

A scheme to encourage nature conservation closes unexpectedly, leaving many farmers short of money ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the centre of nearly every big galaxy - including ours, the Milky Way (it's called Sagittarius A*). Supermassive black holes are the densest objects in the ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense ... In their final stages, enormous stars go out with a bang in massive explosions known as supernovae. Such a burst flings star matter out ...

But recently astronomers have used data collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft to detect three previously unknown black holes and, it turns out, are the closest known to Earth.

According to one researcher, this could mean that the universe is actually inside an unfathomably huge black hole, and that most ... University—to suggest this out-of-this-world idea.

It could provide a crucial way to distinguish between these competing theories of the universe—if only we could figure out how to look for primordial black holes. Well, we have developed a way ...

"A particle in the vicinity of a rotating black hole will orbit it at a speed close to the maximum allowed by the laws of physics, the speed of light in a vacuum, which has a value of 300,000 km/s ...