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

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

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

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

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

Astronomers have long debated the role of galaxy mergers in powering active supermassive black holes. Now an unprecedented dataset of a million galaxies from the Euclid telescope provides evidence ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

"GW241011 and GW241110 are among the most novel events among the several hundred that the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network has observed." Scientists have "heard" the symphony of two newborn black holes — each ...