Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised, according to new research. Many of them are ...

Evaporation introduces a conundrum called the black hole information paradox. If a black hole evaporates and disappears, the particles it leaves behind are missing information on the matter's ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a new theory suggests. Nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

The supermassive black hole has been sending out flashes that have increased in speed. Astronomers say they have never seen anything like it before. The black hole is known as 1ES 1927+654 ...

Are there particles that can move faster than light? Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb explores this question and the mysterious ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information.