When British physicist Roger Penrose suggested in 1969 that energy could be pulled from a rotating black hole, it sparked a ...

We have a hard time explaining the existence of supermassive black holes in the early universe. It looks like there just isn't enough time to make them from "normal" processes. So maybe it was ...

Physicists say they've built the first-ever "black hole bomb," a concept that dates back to the late 1960s. As New Scientist ...

Scientists have created the world’s first ‘black hole bomb’ and it could help experts better understand the space phenomenon.

Did you know some of the brightest sources of light in the sky come from the regions around black holes in the centers of ...

Beyond proving the theory, this result has broader implications. Superradiance — the process of extracting energy from spin — ...

Roger Penrose suggested black holes might release energy. He proposed that near a rotating black hole’s outer zone—called the ...

TIL I learned about gravastars (aka a gravitational vacuum star), theoretical objects related to black holes. Both are massive & ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — Researchers have strengthened the case that matter becomes dark energy when massive stars collapse and become black ... Seeing a Black Hole's Jet in a New Light Oct. 28 ...

Physicists were able to reproduce the so-called «black hole bomb» in the laboratory for the first time, proving the Zeldovich ...

Astronomers have spotted around a dozen of these weird, rare blasts. Could they be signs of a special kind of black hole?