In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

"Once you consider magnetic fields, you can actually explain the origins of this unique event." Scientists have gotten to the ...

Cambridge, MA – The existence of black holes is perhaps the most fascinating prediction of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. When any mass, such as a star, becomes more compact than a certain ...

Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. Their detectors captured the gravitational waves created by the violent crash of two immense black ...

In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away. The progenitor black holes were 20 and 6 solar masses and the larger ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper into space and further back in time than any previous instrument, it has ...

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate. That's just one thing astrophysicists have discovered after developing ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87 has long been a subject of intrigue for astronomers. Recently, LiveScience reported groundbreaking findings about this colossal cosmic entity, ...

An extraordinarily brilliant point of light seen in a distant galaxy, and dubbed ASASSN-15lh, was thought to be the brightest supernova ever seen. But new observations from several observatories, ...