The discovery that black hole growth may not be limited to galactic centers could shed light on the role supermassive black ...

The black hole created in the merger that launched the signal GW190412 was seen racing away from the site of its birth at a ...

Tiny red objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of ...

A decade after the pair of observatories first detected gravitational waves, researchers are drawing up ambitious plans for ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

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

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at ...

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, ...

Discovery joins a list of the greatest hits of the LIGO detector, which ten years ago became the first to detect ...

Black holes get bigger as they merge, the LIGO Collaboration confirmed with a new observation that could finally prove a ...

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