By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...

Black holes and their archaeology The results of the SDSS Survey of mass measurements of hundreds of black holes were a surprise, according to Fries. That's because the spin rates reveal something ...

But supermassive black holes are much larger, and this extreme mass makes them gravitationally powerful. Any object that falls past a black hole's point-of-no-return, called the event horizon ...

As the author concludes, “No wonder Einstein never believed in black holes.” Chown’s book is primarily a chronicle of the researchers who helped make black holes believable, not just for the ...

As far as supermassive black holes go, the one at the center of the Milky Way is relatively sedate. But, even in its supposed quiescent state, Sagittarius A* is prone to the occasional belch or ...