Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) second year Ph.D. scholarship student Sebenele (Sebe) Thwala, ...

An unlucky star came into contact with a roaming black hole and was ripped apart in a peculiar celestial occurrence.

When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and ...

"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from." ...

Astronomical amounts of energy could be extracted from black holes—to build a gigantic bomb, for example. Experts have now ...

"Our findings pave the way for rigorous examinations of black holes and the exploration of new physics in gravity." ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as ...

Physicists have built the first ever black hole bomb, a long-theorised phenomenon where energy is boosted by a black hole and trapped by surrounding mirrors until an explosion occurs. Thankfully ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

Inside Silke Weinfurtner's laboratory at the University of Nottingham in the UK, a giant water tank is helping her team better understand the complexity of the universe by standing in as an analogue ...

Invisible Dark: Lone black holes passing through the galaxy should be a pretty common occurrence in the Milky Way, but they are notoriously hard to spot. According to recently published research ...