At a quarter past 7:00 on Friday evening in Paris, Robert Pattinson parted a crowd of dark navy and grey suits in a ...

at a cocktail reception held at historic upper-crust watering hole Laurent. Which is a big deal, as far as these things go. The list of designers who have won the honour reads like a fashion hall ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

However, black holes have few defining characteristics — as theoretical physicist John Wheeler put it, "black holes have no hair" (much like your humble author). Of course, though, testing a ...

Instead, these black holes would have been born in the earliest epochs after the Big Bang — before stars and galaxies even appeared. Called primordial black holes, these hypothetical objects ...

The new survey is unique because it was as likely to find massive black holes that are hidden behind thick clouds of gas and dust as those that are not. Astronomers think that every large galaxy ...