An artist’s representation of a black hole: Shutterstock / Dima Zel Under the laws of quantum mechanics, information about what has fallen into a black hole cann…
Slim Boom. Credit: Phil Drury, University of Sheffield An explosion the size of our solar system has baffled scientists, as part of its shape—similar to that of an …
Artistic illustration of a supermassive black hole: Shutterstock/Sahara Prince The discovery of a black hole that formed just 570 million years after the big ban…
An illustration of a blazar -- a ravenous, supermassive black hole shooting radiation toward Earth at near-light-speed (Image credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech) …
This illustration shows the ingredients of a long gamma-ray burst, the most common type. The core of a massive star (left) has collapsed, forming a black hole that sends a je…
An artist's impression of a black hole warping space-time around it. Astronomers used this phenomenon, called gravitational lensing, to detect one of the largest black ho…
Artist’s illustration of China’s Chang’e 5 lander on the Moon. Scientists detected water trapped inside glass spherules on the moon after analyzing soil samples brought ba…
Artist’s rendition of a concentration of black holes: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann. Primordial black holes older than the big bang could rewrite cosmology by providin…
