Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

M87* is a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 55 million light-years away with a mass around 6.5 billion times the mass of ...

A series of observations between 2017 and 2021 suggest the supermassive structure’s magnetized plasma is more dynamic than ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and now the science is... On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the ...

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Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot decrease, only increase or remain stable. So if two black holes combine, ...

On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...