"Our findings pave the way for rigorous examinations of black holes and the exploration of new physics in gravity." ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

Physicists have created a model of a black hole bomb in the lab for the first time, verifying a theory first proposed more ...

The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided ...

What if everything we know—the stars, the galaxies, the expanding fabric of space-time—isn’t floating in a limitless void, but instead exists inside a black hole? It may sound like a work of ...

And instead of looking for ways to wipe enemy alien civilizations off the map, the goal of the research is to study how black holes drag and accelerate the fabric of space-time around themselves ...

An experimental setup mimics a “black hole bomb” first theorized in 1971. The spinning cylinder with circuitry is true to the ...

Dec. 17, 2024 — After taking the first images of black holes, the groundbreaking Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now ...

“This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole’s behavior in real time, using X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and NASA’s NICER, Chandra and Swift,” said Dr. Lorena ...

A computer simulation of a pairs of supermassive black holes orbiting around one another. | Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ... tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime are created ...