Once hypothetical monsters born in a tangled nest of Einstein's general theory ... Black holes hide a dirty secret of physics. Shove enough stuff into a space described by what's known as a ...

Black holes and string theory are two fascinating areas of modern theoretical physics that intersect in intriguing ways. Black holes, regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing can ...

This correspondence suggests that certain properties of black holes can be understood through the lens of CFT, which is a type of quantum field theory that is invariant under conformal ...

An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making ...

An artist's concept of the supermassive black hole's mid-infrared flare. Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...

Astronomers believe that nearly every large galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black hole at its center. However, proving this theory is challenging because counting the billions or even ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads. The distant object, dubbed "1ES 1927+654" and packing the mass of 1 million suns, previously stunned astronomers when its corona ...