"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 wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole.

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

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

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

Primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes thought to have formed moments after the Big Bang. Because they ...

We’re not claiming that it’s absolutely going to happen this decade. But there could be a 90% chance that it does." ...

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

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

Ten years after scientists first detected gravitational waves emerging from two colliding black holes, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA ...

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

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