Falling into a black hole may sound like something from a science fiction movie, but it is a very real phenomenon studied by ...

A supermassive black hole 17 billion times the sun’s mass consumes the equivalent of one sun per day and shines 500 trillion times brighter than our star.

Two distant black hole mergers detected in late 2024 have emitted powerful gravitational waves that matched predictions made over a century ago by Albert Einstein.

"Once you consider magnetic fields, you can actually explain the origins of this unique event." Scientists have gotten to the ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

Astronomers from the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) and colleagues have determined how ...

In 2023, gravitational wave detectors picked up the signature of a collision 7 billion light years away. Two black holes had ...

In the blink of an eye after the Big Bang, the universe could have birthed strange new stars and black holes.

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...