Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

S ince Russia invaded, Ukraine has each year named a price. After setting the budget, the government publishes the sum by ...

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Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it's dynamic and complex, ...

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...

We’re not claiming that it’s absolutely going to happen this decade. But there could be a 90% chance that it does." ...

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured distinctive ringing signals ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

Astronomers confirmed an off-center black hole in a dwarf galaxy. It offers clues to how supermassive black holes may form.