So what happens to it when the black hole disappears? This "black hole information paradox" has bedeviled researchers for decades, and they have developed numerous potential solutions. One is ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

In 1974, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a murder mystery with an interesting premise: Could you kill a man with a ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions scientists still have about them.

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive ...

Black holes and soccer balls don't have much in common, but if black holes are curved when kicked, it might say something ...

"These observations provide a more complete picture of the black hole's environment and its dynamics." It may have been the first black hole imaged by humanity, but the eating habits of the ...