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.

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 ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

One of the biggest and most fascinating mysteries of our universe is the question of what lies at the other end of black holes? As NASA explains, "These ...

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

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

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

New findings using data from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into 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 – ...