When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

Scientists have shot two black holes orbiting each other, offering the first ever definitive proof that these intergalactic ...

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.

A maths theory powering computer image compression, an "invisibility cloak" or the science behind the James Webb Space ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's evidence of an "intermediate-sized" black hole about 6000 light-years away in the closest globular star cluster to our home planet. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the Universe may not have begun with a traditional Big Bang, but rather as a “Big Bounce” — the explosive rebound of matter collapsing into a black hole. Led by ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

The polarization pattern around M87* — the first black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope — has ...

On 14 January 2025, LIGO’s detectors in the US picked up the gravitational wave signal GW250114, caused by the collision of two black holes roughly 1.3 billion light-years away. This wasn’t the first ...

Studying black holes is immensely difficult, but with gravitational wave detection, astrophysicists do have a way to directly analyze these mysterious objects. A new study details the “clearest ...

A black hole unlike any seen before has been spotted in the early universe. It’s huge and appears to be essentially on its own, with few stars circling it. The object, which may represent a whole new ...