A new recipe for black holes could do away with central singularities, saving the laws of physics from troubling infinities.

I began graduate study in 1975, the midpoint of the first 100 years of quantum mechanics, 50 years ago and 50 years after the ...

Elusive black hole radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking may have influenced the way the universe took shape after the Big ...

Stephen Hawking's 1966 PhD thesis, Properties of Expanding Universes, laid the groundwork for his renowned contributions to ...

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...

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

New data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope has allowed astronomers to travel back in time to the dawn of the universe.

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

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

If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA astronomer won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the existence of a ...

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant ...