Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A ...

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, but could they ever power an advanced human ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

One of the common misconceptions about black holes is that they devour not only matter, but also the history of that matter.

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Active black holes have a pancake-shaped structure around them called an accretion disk, which contains hot, electrically charged gas. The plasma that makes up the accretion disk comes from ...

Active black holes have a pancake-shaped structure around them called an accretion disk, which contains hot, electrically charged gas. Iuliana Roata, the assistant principal at Julia A.