Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...

In 2019, researchers detected gravitational waves that indicated that two black holes were merging. These were two fairly ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...

"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

Ramanujan's pi-computing machinery exactly mirrors the necessary structure in modern physical theories (LCFTs).

The team used two of the most powerful supercomputers, capable of performing a quintillion operations per second.

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...