Welcome to the ultimate cosmic countdown! Today, we’re diving into the mysterious and mind-bending world of black holes with ...

When two black holes slam together, they do not simply vanish into darkness, they ring like struck bells and briefly light up ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

A tiny fraction of known black holes emit X-ray signals that resemble a human "heartbeat." Now, new research may finally explain the strange phenomenon. Stars that wander too close to supermassive ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

Binary black hole systems are turning out to produce some of the most important data in modern astronomy. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center A new study in the scientific journal Nuclear ...

Scientists say they detected the largest-ever merger of two black holes, forming one that is 225 times the mass of the sun, adding that the new discovery "pushes the limits of" how astronomers ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

"GW241011 and GW241110 are among the most novel events among the several hundred that the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network has observed." Scientists have "heard" the symphony of two newborn black holes — each ...

How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out. A fresh analysis of decades-old X-ray black hole jet data has ...