A scheme to encourage nature conservation closes unexpectedly, leaving many farmers short of money ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours ... But how do these structures cover such enormous distances? To find out, I led a study in which we used ...

According to one researcher, this could mean that the universe is actually inside an unfathomably huge black hole, and that most ... University—to suggest this out-of-this-world idea.

The black hole is fairly quiet most of the time, only occasionally gobbling up material in its vicinity and letting out bursts of light and energy. But that doesn’t mean it’s just lying there.

Over the past few years, spectacular observations using gravitational wave detectors and vast telescope arrays have given us pretty good reasons to believe that black holes are lurking out there i ...