Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

An unusually massive black hole in the very early universe may be a kind of exotic, star-less black hole first theorised by Stephen Hawking. In August, Boyuan Liu at the University of Cambridge and ...

Over the past few days, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has captured something striking on the Sun’s surface — a giant dark gap, or rather two of them, each stretching nearly 800,000 ...

At first, the question sounds almost childlike. How many holes does the human body have? Most people instinctively start counting visible openings and quickly arrive at a large number. But the answer ...