"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 ...

As spotted before-and-after with Hubble, there is no doubt that the direct collapse of matter to a black hole occurs in our Universe. The visible/near-IR photos from Hubble show a massive star ...

Why didn't the universe collapse into a black hole during the earliest moments of the Big Bang? Simply put, because that's not how you make a black hole.

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 ...

But could a black hole consume the entire universe, piece by piece ... Black holes are former massive stars that have collapsed back in on themselves to become incomprehensibly dense — so much ...

For stellar-mass black holes formed from the collapse of massive stars, the timescale for significant Hawking radiation and mass loss is much longer than the current age of the universe.

Black holes were thought to arise from the collapse of dead stars. But a Webb telescope image showing the early universe hints at an alternative pathway. By Dennis Overbye How many ways are there ...

Why the Universe expanded as it did, rather than collapsing into a black hole, demands an explanation. C. Faucher-Giguère, A. Lidz, and L. Hernquist, Science 319, 5859 (47) ...