Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Black holes may leak more energy to their surroundings than previously suspected — and the faster these voids spin, the more ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky ...

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 ...

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

Such waves are produced in some of the most violent events in the universe, like supernovae, black-hole mergers or the big bang itself. Just like electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves have a ...