Browsing: black holes

The collapse of dark matter may help solve the long-standing mystery of why supermassive black holes grow so quickly.

Now, two mathematicians have proven Hawking and his team wrong. This new research, contained in two recent papers by Dr. Christoph Kähle of the Massachusetts Institute…

The Milky Way galaxy may have had a strange black hole since the beginning of the universe, and the three black holes closest to Earth are…

Short-lived neutron stars could explain both the extreme magnetic fields of black holes and the gamma-ray bursts that are the most powerful explosions in the universe.

In a recent column, I wrote about black holes. A curious reader wrote to me with an interesting follow-up question about a topic that I hadn’t…