Scientists have proposed that advanced alien civilizations could build a Dyson sphere around a black hole instead of a star.

What would happen if you put a couple of physicists in a room with a rope, a box and a black hole? They might come up with a ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...

What would a human see and feel while falling into a black hole? In this exclusive excerpt of his new book, "Facing Infinity," author and astrophysicist Jonas Enander tells us in terrifying detail.

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

A new book demystifies black holes and explores what we still don’t know about them James Trefil and Shobita Satyapal The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of ...

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...