Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...
Gravitational wave detectors on Earth have heard the "cry" of two newborn black holes with some unusual and remarkable ...
An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...
Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...
APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...
Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.
Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...
For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.
New results from an international team including UBC astrophysicists highlight the first black hole observed to be spinning ...
Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...
Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...
Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...