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

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's evidence of an "intermediate-sized" black hole about 6000 light-years away in the closest globular star cluster to our home planet. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

The study focused on two black holes — our galaxy's Sgr A* and M87*, located 55 million light-years away. Both were previously imaged by the global EHT project.