"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 ...

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

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 ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed an unexpected difference between the powerful winds launching ...

The merger of two black holes is a momentous event, revealing the wildest and most extreme configurations of space, time and ...

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured distinctive ringing signals ...

Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the ...

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

For the first time, scientists measured a newborn black hole that "kicked" off into space after 2 larger black holes merged together.