Scientists observing a dramatic cosmic outburst have confirmed a prediction first explored in Albert ...

"This is a real gift for physicists as we confirm predictions made more than a century ago." ...

Astronomers observed a star wobbling around a spinning black hole, revealing rare evidence of Einstein’s frame-dragging ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spinning massive objects drag spacetime along with them. This curious phenomenon is an important prediction in general ...

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

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 ...

An artist’s rendition of a black hole surrounded by a glowing accretion disc of material, the light from which is warped by the strong gravity. In principle, energy could be harvested from a spinning ...

Talk about epic. A collision of two black holes is so extreme that it’s challenging physics theories of how large black holes form and merge. The two black holes had masses bigger than any before ...