This 2020 astronaut photo shows the unusual cetacean-like shape of Belize's Lighthouse Reef. It's home to the famous Great ...

The Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize looks like someone punched a perfect circular hole straight through the ocean floor, creating a dark blue void that’s so massive and distinct it shows up ...

Dubbed the 'Great Blue Hole' of Belize, it is one of the deepest sinkholes on the planet. At about 300 feet deep, the hole ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and that black holes appeared later. But some have proposed that it went the other ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

There could be a 90 percent chance that in the next decade, astronomers will spot a deep space explosion that confirms several long-standing theories about black holes – and which releases a complete ...

In an inversion of the well known scenario of a black hole devouring a star, the researchers propose that a star actually ...

The younger black hole, the product of a cataclysmic cosmic event known as a black hole merger, was first spotted in 2019. Now, about 6 years later, a team of international researchers led by the ...

A strange chirp detected by LIGO in 2019 has some scientists searching for answers beyond a simple black hole merger.

"We were amazed by the fact that these observatories can detect about 100 black holes just 250 million years after the Big Bang. Such detections would greatly help to constrain black hole formation ...