Astronomers knew something did not add up when detectors picked up a vast cosmic crash in 2023. The signal, later named ...

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

What’s the rarest thing you can see in the universe?” Astronomers now have a contender: a supermassive black hole tearing ...

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

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion ...

The flare is ongoing, meaning that the black hole is still actively consuming the star, like "a fish only halfway down the ...

Researchers find an incredible flare from supermassive black hole J2245+3743, shining brighter than ever recorded in history.

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...