After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

Astronomers have achieved the first radio image of a supermassive black hole pair, using the retired Russian RadioAstron ...

When two black holes meet, they are drawn to one another by way of their enormous gravity, initiating a powerful orbital ...

Scientists have simulated how M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, powers its immense particle ...

Gravitational waves are energy-carrying waves produced by the acceleration or disturbance of massive objects. These waves, ...

Using a chain of atoms in single file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists in 2022 observed ...

SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic ...

Astronomers studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun, have ...

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions. Scientists tracked the complete cosmic collision, confirming that black ...

Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led some cosmologists to wonder if our universe could have been born in a black hole. Photograph by NASA Goddard Gazing up at the ...