A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

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Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...

A powerful new technique is poised to revolutionize how astronomers observe black holes, by producing sharp, multicolored images that could reveal their dynamic evolution in real time.By compensating ...

The defining feature of a black hole is the event horizon, a region from which nothing can escape. Evidence of black holes thus relies on observing the extreme effects black holes have on their ...

A team of astronomers led by Michael Janssen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic black hole data sets. Based on the network and data from the ...

When any object gets close to a supermassive black hole, it's typically ensnared in a powerful gravitational pull. That's due to the event horizon – a theoretical boundary known as the "point ...

But what happens inside a black hole, beyond the event horizon from which nothing can escape, remains a mystery. In 1965, the British physicist Roger Penrose proved that under very general ...