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 ...

New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information.

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 ...

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 ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

While this was a momentous discovery - the radiation has since been named Hawking radiation - it generated a perplexing issue, called the black hole information paradox, that scientists have yet ...

The black hole information paradox has puzzled physicists for decades. New research shows how quantum connections in spacetime itself may resolve the paradox, and in the process leave behind a ...