The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, has leveraged quantum computing and machine learning to analyze the quantum ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

United States President Donald Trump ordered the construction of a 30,000-bed facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in ...

Such tests can offer a far more scientific way of checking a person's lineage, and new research suggests an analogous ancestry test for black holes. Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little ...