Black holes are one of the most devastating objects in space, sucking up everything around them. But there's another space ...

A black hole is coming straight for Earth. We could wait for it to gobble us up, but instead we're going to try to destroy it ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) White holes are theoretical bodies in physics that are basically time-reversed black holes, meaning instead of permanently trapping matter inside themselves, they release it ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Thank your lucky stars for black holes. Mysterious, terrifying and endlessly fascinating, these extreme objects are the gravitational anchors of every large galaxy – including our own — and help ...

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