By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into one is both interesting and terrifying. Now, a group of astronomers ...

Black holes have long been the ultimate cosmic enigma, defying conventional physics and pushing the boundaries of what we ...

Jets from black holes trigger cooling in the hot gas, causing it to condense into warm filaments. These filaments then flow toward the black hole, feeding it, and the cycle repeats. Brightness ...

An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making ...

The white monster might show up anywhere in the cosmos, so we'll have to wait 100 quatrillion years. White holes, reversed black holes in nature.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Supermassive black holes are spinning faster than previously thought, challenging the notion that they primarily form through galaxy mergers. Instead, their ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the existence of mirror asymmetries in our universe by studying the handedness of the ...

LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...