When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

A posthumous work by Stephen Hawking will be released on October 17, 2018. Called "Brief answers to the great questions of ...

In the summer of 1998, the late Professor Stephen Hawking found himself captivated by Greece's Samos: "Heaven on Earth." ...

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

To test one of Stephen Hawking’s most controversial ideas, scientists created a laboratory version of a black hole using ...

A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including Hawking’s area theorem and Einstein’s ringdown behavior. The findings also provide ...

Despite being “black” and a “hole”, a black hole is not a dark, empty space. In his theory of relativity, Einstein predicted how black holes are formed. When a massive star dies, it leaves a smaller, ...

Explore Stephen Hawking's concerns about AI and its potential to be humanity's biggest existential threat. Discover the ...

Stephen Hawking has compared the Internet to a living brain that connects humanity. The quote has captured his belief that ...