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

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

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

"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 ...

The discovery that black hole growth may not be limited to galactic centers could shed light on the role supermassive black ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled ...

If the explosion of one of these black holes were observed, scientists “would also get a definitive record of every particle ...

Traditionally, black holes are usually thought to "reside" at the centers of galaxies. However, a research team led by Dr. An ...

The observatory is one of two in the United States funded by the National Science Foundation with its counterpart, LIGO ...

Astronomers confirmed an off-center black hole in a dwarf galaxy. It offers clues to how supermassive black holes may form.