"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it's dynamic and complex, ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

Space scientists are puzzled after discovering a black hole behaving in an unexpected way. New images have revealed the ...

There could be a 90 percent chance that in the next decade, astronomers will spot a deep space explosion that confirms ...

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

The merger of two black holes is a momentous event, revealing the wildest and most extreme configurations of space, time and ...

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured distinctive ringing signals ...

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...

For the first time, scientists measured a newborn black hole that "kicked" off into space after 2 larger black holes merged together.

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...