The source of energy for these incredibly powerful phenomena is the rotational energy of the Kerr black hole. "As a rotating black hole transfers energy to its surroundings, the source of this ...

Black holes are a drag. The energy that Penrose and now Pinochet suggest could theoretically be extracted from black holes is the kinetic energy that keeps them rotating.

This idea involves a strange celestial body, a "lunar black hole," as dubbed by Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard, in his ...

Enrique Rico Ortega and Sofia Vallecorsa explain how quantum computing will allow physicists to model complex dynamics, from ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

"Black Hole Bomb": Energy-Stealing Zel’dovich Effect Confirmed In The Lab Fifty years after it was proposed, scientists have finally created a black hole bomb in the lab. James Felton.

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...

LOFAR detects a faint radio 'mini-halo' from 3.8 billion years ago, revealing how galaxy clusters evolved in the early ...

A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.

Humans are quite rightly fascinated by black holes, but could we ever harness them as an energy source? New research poses this question in order to explore some of the most wonderous cosmic events.