While black holes ensnare scientists and public alike, their theoretical counterparts’ white holes remain a totally mysterious and controversial concept in astrophysics. The white holes, if they exist ...

Black holes form when a huge amount of matter is ... The explosion leaves behind a naked stellar core called a white dwarf, barely the size of Earth but with hundreds of thousands of times that ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

Go to any bookshop, and its shelves will be groaning with works of popular science: titles promising to explain black holes, ...

Imagine the formation of a black hole and you’ll probably envision a massive star running out of fuel and collapsing in on itself. Yet the chaotic conditions of the early universe may have also ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Imagine the formation of a black hole and you’ll probably envision a massive star running out of fuel and collapsing in on itself. Yet the chaotic conditions of the early universe may ...