On Sept. 14, 2015 astronomers “heard” two black holes crashing into each other at close to the speed of light. This discovery ...

Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from its edge," ...

Of all the unanswered questions in modern science, perhaps the most talked about is whether we are alone in the universe. A ...

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Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare pair of supermassive black holes exhibiting an unprecedented feeding pattern. The black holes, located a billion light-years away, are consuming a massive gas ...

G. Hdepohl/ESO At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from Earth and 23.5 million kilometres in diameter. In a world ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is associated with wanton destruction, but a recent discovery throws that assumption into question. A team of international ...

A massive black hole appears to have eaten so much that it fell asleep, scientists have said. It swallowed so much of the mass from its surrounding galaxy that it has gone dormant, researchers said.