Scientists believe this rapid spin was likely caused by powerful gravitational interactions with its companion — the black ...

In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally explains how this "forbidden" black hole came to be, and what it can teach ...

The detection of two singular black hole mergers, only one month apart in late 2024, improves our understanding of the nature ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration detected two unique black hole merger events, GW241011 and GW241110, which featured a rapidly spinning black hole and the first observed black hole spinning backward ...

"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...

Scientists have potentially solved the mystery behind LIGO's forbidden black hole pair, GW231123, through new computer simulations involving fast-spinning, magnetized stars.

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Scientists have gotten to the bottom of the mystery of an "impossible" merger between black holes that was detected via ripples in space-time called gravitational waves back in 2023. The collision ...

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, ...