NASA and NOAA recently announced good news concerning the ozone hole. What are lessons about science, policy and skepticism ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

A team of researchers has confirmed the discovery of the deepest known blue hole on the planet in the waters of Chetumal Bay, ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

A UK-based research project, TomoGrav, will produce the first 3D movies of black holes, mapping plasma flows and gravity in real time using advanced AI and global telescope networks.

A series of studies sheds light on the origins and characteristics of intermediate-mass black holes. In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes ...

Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event from a black hole merger, hinting that all three singularities were locked in ...

Physicists have started to treat a once-fringe idea with surprising seriousness: that our entire observable universe might be the interior of a black hole that formed in some larger cosmos. The notion ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the satellites we use for navigation, communication and Earth observation every ...

A mysterious ring of light is thought to surround every black hole, and Alex Lupsasca wants to glimpse one for the first time. The tendril-thin halo, called a photon ring, has the power to reveal ...

Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners, but they are among the universe’s most extreme objects - born from collapsing ...