Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it's dynamic and complex, ...

"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 ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...

New research suggests that if primordial black holes exist, there is a 90% chance our telescopes could detect one exploding ...

Tiny red objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of ...

A decade after the pair of observatories first detected gravitational waves, researchers are drawing up ambitious plans for ...

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

On September 16, reporters from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences learned that the ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Scientists have captured the clearest signal yet of a black hole collision, confirming Stephen Hawking's theory.