Artist's illustration of two black holes ringing. (Maggie Chiang for Simons Foundation) Of all the objects in the Universe, ...

On July 28, 2019, the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories recorded a brief shudder in spacetime: two black holes, ...

Scientists have developed a new technique that could turn black hole collisions into cosmic detectors for dark matter, ...

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, but the only way it interacts with its surroundings is through gravity. If two colliding black holes spiral through a dense region ...

A blazing galaxy half a billion light-years away could offer us a real-time, front-row seat to a supermassive black hole collision on human timescales, possibly within a mere century. A new analysis ...

Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are one of the most active fields of research in astronomy. In order to accumulate their enormous masses, they must merge with each other. A ...

New research describes an unexpected double jet in a distant galaxy, revealing a pair of supermassive black holes on the verge of colliding. Reading time 3 minutes It’s no question that supermassive ...

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s ...

A faint ripple from deep space may be offering physicists a new way to look for one of the universe’s biggest missing pieces. Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the cosmos, yet it ...