Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole.

The merger of two black holes is a momentous event, revealing the wildest and most extreme configurations of space, time and ...

The new data provide the clearest evidence yet for long-held fundamental predictions by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

Scientists have confirmed two long-standing theories relating to black holes—thanks to the detection of the most clearly ...

Gravitational waves emitted after two black holes coalesced agree with theories from physicists Stephen Hawking and Roy Kerr.

A decade ago, scientists first detected ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, from the collision ...

Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an ...

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 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 ...

Unexpected X-ray polarization challenges long-held ideas about how black holes behave. A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is ...

Physicists have detected the biggest ever merger of colliding black holes. The discovery has major implications for researchers’ understanding of how such bodies grow in the Universe. “It’s super ...