A black hole can feel like the most distant and unreal object you could ever think about, yet the way its darkness bends ...

Hi everyone, it's Patrick, Trending News Writer, here taking the blog baton from Ben. One of the big science stories ...

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With ...

Black holes are considered cosmic gluttons, from which not even light can escape. That is also why the images of black holes ...

Pairs of black holes have been detected in the past through their gravitational effects, but until now, scientists have never ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Explore the science and mystery of time travel — from Einstein’s relativity and paradoxes to wormholes and real-life claims.

General relativity describes gravitation in a geometrical framework generalizing special relativity and classical mechanics. This term includes theoretical studies of gravity, experimental studies of ...

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates ...

What if time isn't fundamental at all? Physicist Carlo Rovelli reveals how modern physics, from relativity to quantum gravity, has gradually erased time from its equations. In it ...

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...