When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to ...

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

A strange chirp detected by LIGO in 2019 has some scientists searching for answers beyond a simple black hole merger.

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions. Scientists tracked the complete cosmic collision, confirming that black ...

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational wave that lasted just one-tenth of a second. The signal, known as ...

Artist representation of CAPERS-LRD-z9, home to the earliest confirmed black hole. The supermassive black hole at its center is believed to be surrounded by a thick cloud of gas, giving the galaxy a ...

Black Hole Sign is, on the surface, a fairly conventional drama about the state of the NHS. It’s set in a hospital ward during a night shift at a time when the service is overstretched and the nurses ...

The magnetic field swirling around an enormous black hole, located about 55 million light-years from Earth, has unexpectedly switched directions. This dramatic reversal challenges theories of black ...

Astronomers have found a black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating far faster than expected. It shines with record-breaking X-rays for its era and may help explain how some black holes ...

Abstract: This research enhances the WSN method of the black hole and worm hole attackers of the LEACH using Particle Swarm Optimization and Reinforcement Learning. PDR-reported performance measures, ...