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For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted the black hole as it appeared just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, and it was ...

A massive, energetic jet from Virgo A could help scientists understand how matter behaves around a black hole.

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412. Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A.

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

New analysis techniques and decades-old research helped NASA scientists identify an unusual black hole in a distant galaxy.

In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

An ancient black hole had to take it easy after gorging itself on its local galaxy, offering hints at the exotic objects' ...

Researchers discovered a surprising water-bound black hole with 140 trillion times the water of Earth’s oceans combined.

The team suggests that the black hole feeds for 5 to 10 million years and then sleeps for 100 million years. If this is a ...