When you get your earlobes pierced, those tiny wounds signal your body to repair the injuries and create fresh skin, ... If your earring holes are stretched because of small gauges, ...

Stretched earring holes tend to resemble a slit, rather than a small hole, and often create the appearance of sagging or drooping earlobes. It may become more difficult to fit regular earrings ...

Black holes are some of the most violent objects in the universe. And the bigger they get, the more powerful they are. Here's how big they really are.

But approach the event horizon of a huge black hole, like that of Pōwehi, and you wouldn’t get stretched: Rather, you’d gently cross the event horizon without any particular sensation at all.

Don't rule out primordial black holes as dark matter suspects just yet! Particle-sized black holes may resist evaporation, surviving long enough to account for the universe's most mysterious stuff.

Small pairs of binary black holes could be used to play hide-and-seek' with elusive supermassive black hole binaries via gravitational waves carry the "baritone singing" of these cosmic titans.

According to TV physicist Neil De Grasse Tyson: "As you get closer and closer, the force of gravity grows astronomically. You stay whole until the stretching force exceeds the molecular bonds of ...