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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

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

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.

Black holes have been fascinating subjects of study, not just because they are cosmic vacuum cleaners, but also as engines of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a treasure trove of feeding black holes at the heart of dwarf galaxies — small, faint galaxies ...

"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic ...

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

The year’s biggest computer science stories included a new understanding of large language models, and a breakthrough in being able to compute complex quantum systems. We look back at three of the ...

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