So what happens to it when the black hole disappears? This "black hole information paradox" has bedeviled researchers for decades, and they have developed numerous potential solutions. One is ...

Black hole singularities should not exist, according to theories of quantum mechanics. New tweaks to Einstein's equations of general relativity could finally do away with them, and explain what truly ...

The concept of a bootstrap paradox arises when an object or piece of knowledge exists without a clear origin, creating a closed loop in time. In Interstellar, this paradox is presented when future ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

Related: Stephen Hawking's black hole radiation paradox could finally be solved — if black holes aren't what they seem But all known black holes are very large — at least a few times the mass ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...