Three black holes in one area sounds terrifying.

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

A high-altitude balloon telescope has revealed new patterns in X-rays emitted near the black hole Cygnus X-1. These signals ...

This is the light echo of the Big Bang, the first light that freely moved through the universe. This relic is crucial to our ...

Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its ...

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

Earlier this year, researchers reported the most massive black hole merger ever detected. But the event was so unusual that questions around its origin sowed confusion within the astrophysics ...

MIT astronomers used the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer to identify key features in the innermost region of a white dwarf system called an intermediate polar. This extremely energetic environment ...