Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here's how the process unfolds.

New theoretical research suggests primordial black holes could one day help researchers locate invisible dark matter.

Physicists finally know whether black holes destroy the information contained in infalling matter. The problem is that the ...

Hundreds packed Science Center Hall B to watch Kip S. Thorne, a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech and a 2017 Nobel ...

If true, this theory could explain how all of the matter in our universe was created.

Scientists studying the infamous 3-body problem have discovered certain "islands of regularity" that emerge from the ...

Q uasars occur when supermassive black holes gobble up an incredible amount of gas. Observations and general wisdom suggested ...

Recent observations, including those from the Hubble Space Telescope, suggest that early galaxies harbored significantly more ...

Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Robert Oppenheimer, Karl Schwarzschild, John Wheeler, Albert Einstein, Leonard Susskind – ...

The first moving images of a black hole could reveal swirls of plasma and collapsing stars, deepening our understanding of ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect ancient lonely quasars with murky origins. They appear to have few ...

A recent study led by MIT scientists has revealed the existence of ancient quasars that appear to drift alone in the early ...