At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

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

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable insights for particle physics ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

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

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

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Sarah Gallagher, a professor of astrophysics at Western University in Ontario, Canada, said that two black holes of the same mass, spin, and charge are indistinguishable from one another. “They're ...