At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Earth’s closest black hole isn’t a black hole after all. Back in 2020, a mission led by the European Southern Observatory reported the discovery of a black hole close to Earth.

Large black hole discovered in Earth’s neighborhood. When a black hole is created by the death of a massive star, its matter collapses in on itself crushing it into a point of singularity.

If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it would be under an inch across. Today, many black holes form following the collapse of massive objects like stars, notably after violent ...

While we have captured images of black holes, they are all grainy and lacking detail. That’s because the light of space literally bends around these void-like entities, making it hard to observe ...

The study calculated how large a hollow planetoid could be without collapsing in on itself, and the likelihood of a primordial black hole passing through an object on Earth. (If you’re worried about a ...