A burst of X-rays from 8 billion years ago may be the first clear evidence of a white dwarf torn apart by a black hole. The ...

Black holes are well known for swallowing everything around them, which is probably why they get talked about so often. On the flip side, white holes are their mysterious opposite. These theoretical ...

Black holes don’t just bend space and time. They also expose where our understanding of reality begins to break. In this video, we journey – with up-to-the-minute discoveries and insights – through ...

Tokyo, Japan – A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a “dissonance” in gravitational waves emitted by a black hole. Using high precision computing and a ...