"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A supermassive black hole with an exceptional 7-minute flash may have a “stellar companion.” Of three possible explanations, one is a white dwarf star caught in the black hole’s gravity. Scientists ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a ...

A new study suggests that a black hole singularity—where time and matter are condensed into infinitely small space—could be a transition to a beginning. This beginning is a white hole—a theoretical ...

An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making scientists ...

Exploring the BTZ black hole in (2+1)-dimensional gravity took me down a fascinating rabbit hole, connecting ideas I never expected—like black holes and topological phases in quantum matter! When I ...

Our understanding of black holes, time and the mysterious dark energy that dominates the universe could be revolutionised, as new University of Sheffield research helps unravel the mysteries of the ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be ...

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 ...

In today’s bleak media landscape of legitimate news existing alongside rampant chatbot hallucinations and a social epidemic of disinformation, it should go without saying that you can’t believe ...