Scientists involved in the effort to detect the space-time ripples known as gravitational waves tell a similar story. In the 1970s and 80s, when Rainer Weiss, a physicist at M.I.T., and Kip Thorne ...

It was during his time at MIT’s Haystack Observatory that Doeleman became one of the first people to see the first hints of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Plunging into a black hole reveals a breathtaking spectacle where intense gravity twists space-time and plasma disks blaze in vibrant blue, spinning nearly at light speed. Experience surreal ...

It’s the largest black hole jet we’ve discovered to date. What makes this particular jet so exciting for astronomers is not only its size. It’s also estimated to be 1.2 billion years old.

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption event.

As we know, black holes are able to grow thanks to their voracious consumption of matter — a process called accretion. After looking at the massive energy budget of ENTs and their distinct appearance, ...

Each of the supermassive black holes the researchers described lies at the center of a distant galaxy. And each were observed to have suddenly brightened for several months after shredding up a ...

If these black holes lie close enough together, they will ultimately collide and form an even more massive black hole. Across the cosmos, many stars can be found in pairs, gracefully circling one ...

A team of astronomers led by Michael Janssen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic black hole data sets. Based on the network and data from ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.