For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

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The known black holes that populate the universe fall into two types: those up to a few dozen times the mass of the sun and ...

The first-ever photographed black hole emits an extraordinary gamma-ray flare, billions of times more energetic than visible ...

Recent discoveries about black holes, including intermediate types and plasma jets, transform our cosmic understanding.

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...

New analysis techniques and decades-old research helped NASA scientists identify an unusual black hole in a distant galaxy.

Typically, black holes are detected by a tell-tale glow of a swirling accretion disc. This disc forms near the black hole’s ...

After taking the first images of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch ...

A research team has proposed a new method to reconstruct the "family tree" of black holes. Published in The Astrophysical ...

An ancient black hole had to take it easy after gorging itself on its local galaxy, offering hints at the exotic objects' ...