Black holes live forever, at least according to general relativity. Once material crosses a black hole's event horizon, it is ...
Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of ...
Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused when a black hole or ...
A link between particle physics and gravity equations, called the double copy, applies to Hawking radiation, creating a new ...
Recent progress in string theory has significantly reshaped our understanding of black holes. Traditionally seen as objects characterised by event horizons and singularities, black holes are now being ...
For just one-tenth of a second in May 2019, the universe delivered a signal that did not fit the usual script. LIGO and Virgo recorded a gravitational wave from GW190521, but unlike the familiar ...
A bizarre, record-breaking neutrino detected in 2023 may have originated from an exploding primordial black hole—a relic from the early universe. Scientists suggest these black holes could carry a ...