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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...