Physicists have created a model of a black hole bomb in the lab for the first time, verifying a theory first proposed more ...

Imagine the catastrophic gravitational effects and potential solar system disruption if the largest known black hole entered ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive ...

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

Roger Penrose suggested black holes might release energy. He proposed that near a rotating black hole’s outer zone—called the ...

F or the first time, physicists have created a "black hole bomb" in the lab, providing evidence for the "Zel’dovich effect" ...

The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

When British physicist Roger Penrose suggested in 1969 that energy could be pulled from a rotating black hole, it sparked a ...