Why they're black: Their gravitational pull is so extreme that even light can't escape Black holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape. Rather than ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...

A mathematical model suggests that when a pair of black holes gets quantum entangled, this can give rise to a lumpy ...

Binary black hole systems are turning out to produce some of the most important data in modern astronomy. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center A new study in the scientific journal Nuclear ...

A tiny fraction of known black holes emit X-ray signals that resemble a human "heartbeat." Now, new research may finally explain the strange phenomenon. Stars that wander too close to supermassive ...