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

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

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

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

Some of the brightest beacons in the universe share one hidden engine: matter falling into a black hole. As gas whirls inward ...

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

"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 ...