There's another report out about how Benedict Cumberbatch's villain in Star Trek Into Darkness isn't who you think it is... and by that, I mean he's exactly who you think he is. Guillermo del Toro dreams of Pacific Rim's robots taking on Godzilla. Looper's Rian Johnson is going cyberpunk. Aaron Eckhart discusses his…

Prometheus scribe Jon Spaiths has been hired by Disney to jumpstart the long stalled Black Hole reboot, spearheaded by Oblivion and Tron Legacy director Joe Kosinski. And going by Kosinski's aesthetic, we're imagining a very video game friendly reboot that swaps out google-eyed robots for Svedka bots.

Galaxies and their central supermassive black holes grew in tandem, the result of countless collisions and mergers between ancient, smaller galaxies. But galaxies sometimes merged without combining their black holes, ejecting some of these objects out into the depths of open space.

For the first time ever, astrophysicists have reliably measured the spinning speed of a supermassive black hole. Let's just say words like "blistering," "breakneck" and "blinding" still manage to come up short.

Black holes are so named because they exert such extraordinary gravity, that not even light can escape them. You'd expect them to be dark. But there are some black holes whose concentrated brightness outshines all the stars around them. Here's why.

If a new theory about black holes turns out to be true, then we're going to have to stop making fun of the final sequence in classic cheeseball flick The Black Hole (helpfully excerpted above). You might just light on fire. Jennifer Ouellette has just published an amazing piece on this "wall of fire" theory on the…

Specifically, that bright dot in the center of this image is Hercules A, a galaxy located over two billion light-years from Earth. But what really dominates the scene are the two gargantuan jets of plasma shooting out of Hercules A.

As a rule of thumb, the more massive a black hole is, the bigger its surrounding galaxy will be. That's why there's something so fundamentally wrong about NGC 1277, a tiny galaxy home to possibly the biggest black hole yet.

This beautiful photo from the Hubble Legacy Archive offers a striking look at the Trapezium, four closely packed stars found inside the Orion nebula, some 1,500 light-years away. Lurking inside that image might be our nearest black hole neighbor.

As time marches on, a lot of things about society change — but not the need to smooth social interaction with bland, valueless pleasantries. Hence the greeting card industry, which has thrived by printing bland sentiments on folded cardboard, decorated with pictures of kittens hugging. As we go forward into the future, …