Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of an "impossible" merger between two black holes so massive and fast-spinning that ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion ...

The simulations revealed that stronger magnetic fields create lighter, slower spinning black holes, while weaker fields allow heavier, faster spinning ones. This relationship suggests black holes ...

Learn more about the images advanced telescopes could take of black holes and how they could back up Einstein’s general ...

NASA scientists have reached a breakthrough in computer modeling that allows them to simulate what gravitational waves from merging black holes look like. The three-dimensional simulations, the ...

At the center of the Milky Way galaxy exists a supermassive black hole that's more than four million times the sun's mass. A human traveling to the black hole's surface, known as the event horizon and ...

Black holes are always fascinating, and a new simulation adds to their mystery. You likely did not previously associate them with fluffy angel-food cake, but researchers at Caltech recently put ...