The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper into space and further back in time than any previous instrument, it has ...

For years, scientists have theorized that some black holes could actually be wormholes, and a new study shows that this space-time mimicry could in fact be possible.

Humans are quite rightly fascinated by black holes, but could we ever harness them as an energy source? New research poses this question in order to explore some of the most wonderous cosmic ...

The small size of black holes relative to their mass gives rise to an interesting phenomenon that wasn’t noticed by Schwarzschild and his colleagues but has become part of the folklore of black ...

Physicist Karl Schwarzschild accidentally discovered the concept of black holes in 1916 while working on a solution to Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Here’s the story we like to tell about the beginning of the universe.

New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an event horizon, potentially solving some of the biggest paradoxes in ...

Neutron stars are timelike matter with a maximum mass of about 2.34 solar masses in quantum chromodynamics (the strong color ...