On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

Earlier this year, researchers reported the most massive black hole merger ever detected. But the event was so unusual that ...

When Kareem El-Badry picked up an unknown phone call at 7 a.m., he didn’t expect to hear the words that would change his career. “They said, this is so and so from the MacArthur Foundation. And I was ...

"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the differences grow predictably as imaging resolution and fidelity improve, ...

WASHINGTON — The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, with astronomers calling it a “gentle giant" on a ...

Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes Many of the images taken by ...

Elon Musk discloses that his partner Shivon Zilis is half-Indian and their child's middle name is Sekhar, honouring Nobel ...

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

Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is perhaps best known for his podcast “Star Talk,” where he discusses covers ...

A provocative theory is gaining new support today. Scientists suggest atom-sized black holes may move through Earth. These ...