You might think that the human body has many holes, but that number shrinks when you stop to consider what counts as a hole.

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Black holes may appear to be shaped like a doughnut, but the truth is more complicated than that, explain our readers ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

Black holes are, of course, awesome. But, for scientists, they are more awesome. If a rainbow is marvellous, then understanding how all the colors of the rainbow are present, unified, in ordinary ...

In a patch of sky about 1. 2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in ...

A new study has investigated stellar mass black holes, which are black holes with masses between a few to some hundred solar masses, that originated at the end of the life of massive stars. According ...