Stellar black holes form when massive stars collapse after death. They usually weigh between three and fifty times the Sun.

Knowable Magazine reports that neutrinos may help explain the universe's missing antimatter, shedding light on ...

Wang Yifang, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences which collaborated with 700 physicists worldwide, told The Times: “We are ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at ...

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.

How often do black holes explode? New research refines old calculations, hinting that black hole explosions may be a ...

There could be a 90 percent chance that in the next decade, astronomers will spot a deep space explosion that confirms ...

Black holes can lose mass and energy over time. They release Hawking radiation. The smaller they are, the more radiation they emit, so the hotter they get. The end scenario is the black holes ...

If the explosion of one of these black holes were observed, scientists “would also get a definitive record of every particle ...

Scientists are talking about “black hole fireworks,” blasts that could crack open some of the universe’s secrets.

New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based telescope to spot an exploding black hole. Such a detection would change our ...

“Dark energy” is a term scientists use to refer to whatever is causing the universe to expand faster over time. We don’t know exactly what dark energy is—no one has ever directly seen or measured ...