University of Oregon astronomer Yvette Cendes made a surprising discovery years after a black hole shredded a star. What is ...

The extraordinarily rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe puzzles astronomers, with current models ...

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million ...

In the depths of the universe, where black holes collide and neutron stars crash, invisible ripples in spacetime are sent across the cosmos, carrying with them secrets about the most extreme events in ...

Scientists found exotic prime numbers may play a role in black hole physics, revealing a surprising connection between number theory and the extreme environments of the universe.

In 1974, physicist Stephen Hawking described the potential for tiny, primordial black holes that existed at the dawn of time ...

The catalog of gravitational waves "heard" by LIGO, KAGRA and Virgo has doubled with detections of spacetime ripples.

The black hole would have to be within 25 light years from Earth, and we haven’t seen one that close yet. That’s not stopping Cosimo Bambi.

A ‘runaway’ black hole ejected from its host galaxy is barrelling across space — and leaving behind a wake of newborn stars. A 2023 paper 1 reported the discovery of a bright, straight feature that ...

A newly detected X-ray transient may reveal the first direct evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole consuming a white dwarf. A newly observed cosmic outburst is giving astronomers a rare glimpse ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller ...

While nearly all massive galaxies possess central black holes, the presence of such black holes in dwarf galaxies remains an open question, with previous estimates identifying them in only 0.5% of ...