The earliest black holes in the universe may not have disappeared from Hawking radiation after all, new research hints.

A recent study proposes the possibility that our universe could exist inside a rotating black hole, potentially explaining ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

A faint flash of infrared light in the Andromeda galaxy was emitted at the birth of a stellar-mass black hole – according to a team of astronomers in the US. Kishalay De at Columbia University and the ...

Scientists have named two systems of colliding supermassive black holes after Lord of the Rings locations, Gondor and Rohan.

Hypothetical dark matter stars known as "boson stars" could leave telltale ripples across the cosmos, offering researchers a new way to probe the invisible forces shaping the universe. In 2019, a ...

A watched pot never boils and love happens when you least expect it -- turns out, the same logic applies to capturing a star as it collapses into a black hole. The astronomer also said the star ...

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight Center animation. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image L ...

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...

I had been looking for something like a beginning. A strange thing, perhaps, to expect from time, or from life: the chance to ...

Ireland Baldwin, the daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, detailed rules that she believes other children of famous parents should be implementing in their lives.