Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that.

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show!

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists found that the ...

Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

If you've ever visited a woodworker's workshop, you may have taken particular note of their hefty bench. Technically, any workbench could be a woodworking bench if you work with wood on it, but a ...

Small wonder Alister MacKenzie considered the third hole — named "Flowering Peach" — to be as fine as any hole he designed at Augusta National. He wrote in a 1933 letter to co-founder Clifford ...

If you ever hit the Powerball and decide to build your own golf course, do the world a favor: Don’t name your golf holes. Stick with the hole numbers, because they are sufficient. Golf holes don ...