New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several magnetic flips in the last decade. Reading time 3 minutes In 2019, ...

An ambitious project to map the density of every object in the cosmos has yielded a few surprises, and may help lead to new ...

For a few brief nights each year, you get a rare chance to watch a monster blink. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released new, detailed views of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the ...

Let’s tell a story that challenges what we think we know about black holes. Scientists now say that, under the right ...

Black holes are some of the most fascinating objects in the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Black holes are some of the ...

Hunt for key terms that define one of the universe's most mind-bending phenomena—from event horizons to singularities. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The idea of black holes was first proposed in 1916, but at the time, physicists didn't think they actually existed. Today, we ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...