Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and ...

New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

A recent study analyzing 263 galaxies has added new fuel to an extreme cosmic theory—that our entire universe might actually ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.