Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

April 21 is a date rich with historical significance, marked by events that have shaped cultures, nations, and the course of ...

The basic idea is that you send a beam of light around a pair of black holes spinning around each other prior to a merger, or ...

A white hole is a theoretical solution to Einstein's general relativity equations, considered the opposite of a black hole. While a black hole absorbs everything crossing its event horizon, a white ...

Event Horizon Telescope ... conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...

ACES will gather ultra-precise data across at least ten observation windows, each lasting about 25 days during the ...