How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

These two small (ish) black holes were actually pulled together not by each other, but by a third supermassive black hole.

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...

Just 570 million years after the Big Bang, a young, compact galaxy named CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 appears to host a supermassive black ...

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...