Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

A stronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth. The cosmic juggernaut, which is about as massive as 700 million suns, is taking aim at ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Earth’s closest black hole isn’t a black hole after all. Back in 2020, a mission led by the European Southern Observatory reported the discovery of a black hole close to Earth.

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the satellites we use for navigation, communication and Earth observation every ...

A group of researchers recently simulated the event horizon of a man-made black hole in a lab. The new analog could help us learn more about the elusive radiation that is believed to be emitted by ...

If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it would be under an inch across. Today, many black holes form following the collapse of massive objects like stars, notably after violent ...

What trouble could a coin-sized black hole cause? Ford workers told their CEO ‘none of the young people want to work here.’ So Jim Farley took a page out of the founder’s playbook The Whole Country Is ...

Study reveals that high-energy cosmic rays are born in magnetic fields during neutron star mergers, a prelude to black holes.

The black hole in question lies in the distant Seyfert galaxy PG1211+143, about 1.2 billion light years from Earth. Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory, the University of ...