Black holes are among the most enigmatic and fascinating objects in the universe. Their sheer existence challenges our understanding of the cosmos and raises deep questions about the nature of reality ...

A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...

Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO observatories. The powerful merger produced a final black hole approximately ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

New research suggests a way for black holes to merge quickly: They must be caught in the accretion disk of a supermassive companion.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) achieved a historic milestone by making the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015. It originated from a black hole merger ...

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

A new study helps solve the "final parsec problem" that has made supermassive black hole formation impossible to explain, pointing to a strange form of dark matter as the key.

“This was our first evidence that black hole binaries do overcome the final-parsec problem,” said Laura Blecha, an astrophysicist at the University of Florida. So how do they do it? Astrophysicists ...

The Gathering' is taking its next big risk: a full-on leap into science fiction. A certain Star franchise may have boldly ...

Black hole singularities defy the laws of physics. New research presents a bold solution to this puzzle: Black holes may actually be a theoretical type of star called a 'gravastar,' filled with ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...