It was a bump in the night. A big one.On Nov. 23, 2023, waves from a colossal merger of two black holes reached Earth and ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" out excess mass at nearly a third of the speed of light.

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

The event is the most massive black hole merger ever recorded by gravitational wave detectors and has forced physicists to ...

Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones, known as "supermassive" black holes, can weigh millions to ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Supermassive black hole found only half a billion years after Big Bang There just isn't time for something that big to grow from a supernova remnant. John Timmer – Nov 6, 2023 5:45 ...