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

Now, researchers using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have gathered data about 12 known black holes to determine the structural properties of accretion disks around different sized ...

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 ...

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

Discover the intense process of black hole mergers, from event horizons stretching to the release of gravitational waves.

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

Scientists identify faint black holes in galaxies that formed during the early days of the universe, using imagery from the ...

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

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

What is a fiscal black hole? The term is bandied about by ministers as though it is a real phenomenon rather than a political ...

Astronomers have discovered there were more black holes than previously estimated after studying the observations that the ...