"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

A controversial theory suggests the observable universe is the result of matter rebounding after the collapse of a black hole ...

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

Suppose the birth of the universe was not a definite start, but a cosmological rebound far within a black hole? This radical idea has been picking up steam as new theoretical research, spearheaded by ...

A team of scientists has developed a new model for ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes.

The universe may not have begun with the Big Bang as is generally thought but from the collapse of a massive black hole, a new theory suggests. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

In this framework, our entire observable universe lies inside the interior of a black hole formed in some larger “parent” universe. We are not special, no more than Earth was in the geocentric ...

Scientists have discovered the farthest-ever 'mini-halo,' a sea of charged particles around a distant galaxy cluster that ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.