Events kick off Thursday at Dreamhaven Books, where there will be a release party for the new book A Mouthful of Dust, the ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

M87* is a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 55 million light-years away with a mass around 6.5 billion times the mass of ...

Wormhole researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different ...

A series of observations between 2017 and 2021 suggest the supermassive structure’s magnetized plasma is more dynamic than ...

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 ...

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions ...

A black hole is a celestial body with an extremely powerful gravitational force, so strong that even light cannot escape it.

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found to be much more powerful than gamma-ray bursts, called extreme nuclear ...

Reading, I felt incapable of turning away from whatever it was that Jonas Enander was about to tell me about gravity, ...

A black hole merger detected with record-breaking clarity has just confirmed a bold theory Stephen Hawking proposed over 50 ...

Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the collision of two black holes. That moment in 2015, known as GW150914, ...