A strange X-ray beacon from deep space has revived a decades-old mystery and opened a window onto one of the universe’s most ...

This week, NASA revealed that one of its spacecraft currently in orbit around Mars has inexplicably lost signal due to an ...

Some of the darkest objects in the universe are also among its brightest beacons, lighting up entire galaxies while their ...

Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a black hole, they glow with fierce intensity across the light spectrum. Now, a ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

A new mathematical model of a wormhole suggests that two black holes can be “cut and pasted.” Cut and paste is an official concept in math, referring to two surfaces that may be transposable. In this ...

Google has launched its latest AI image generation and editing tool, called Nano Banana Pro. Some experts have raised concerns over the images appearing too realistic. NBC News’ Erin McLaughlin tests ...

A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed up by a pulp-era sci-fi writer. Which, fittingly enough, it was. In 1974, Larry Niven imagined a murder carried out by ...

What would happen if you got hit by a primordial black hole? In a study published this summer in the International Journal of Modern Physics D, Vanderbilt University physicist and sole author Robert ...