Black holes are as dangerous as they are distant, so scientists set out to simulate one in a lab. What happened next would ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Recently, two researchers looked at what would happen if a ship with warp drive tried to get into a black hole. The result is an interesting thought experiment. It might not lead to starship-sized ...

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

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

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 ...

Following is the transcript of the video. Narrator: Black holes are some of the most powerful and violent objects in the universe. They can warp space and time and rip entire stars to pieces.

During World War I, Schwarzschild confirmed what Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicted: black holes warp, bend, and distort space-time. Einstein was the first to realize that time is ...

But simple it isn’t. General relativity’s equations fail catastrophically at a black hole’s centre, known as its singularity, where the warping of space-time simply goes off the scale.