Across the cosmos, many stars can be found in pairs, gracefully circling one another. Yet one of the most dramatic pairings occurs between two orbiting black holes, formed after their massive ...

Right at the brink of a black hole, gravity twists space and time so violently that ordinary physics starts to fall apart.

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and ...

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

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Black holes, those cosmic objects from which even light cannot escape, remain by definition invisible to our eyes. How then can we understand their behavior? A team of astrophysicists has taken a ...

In a fresh discovery that's leaving astronomers awestruck, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has confirmed the existence of a "runaway" supermassive black hole roughly 20 million times the mass of ...