A decade ago, physicists using twin detectors in Washington State and Louisiana detected gravitational waves—subtle ripples ...

Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational ...

Scientists described for the first time the creation of regular black holes from gravitational effects and without the need ...

A new study shows black holes can form without singularities, using only modifications to Einstein’s equations.

"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." ...

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

When NASA detects two black holes colliding, the cosmos is in a state of chaos. Black holes lie at the centre of most ...

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

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

Expect the unexpected In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. (Courtesy: ...

the force is actually very weak, and so gravitational waves only distort space by a very small amount. In the case of the black hole mergers recorded in 2015 by the gravitational-wave detectors ...