Astronomers have an answer for a long-running mystery in astrophysics: why is the growth of supermassive black holes so much ...

A team of astronomers have studied two black holes that merged into a massive new one, confirming a 50-year-old theory that ...

How does a black hole generate a magnetic field and how can it be measured and visualized? Alan CroftSeattle, Washington As ...

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals, more than doubling the entire catalog built across the previous decade. The ...

RIT’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation researchers publish papers on new ways to identify supermassive ...

Did primordial black holes born during the Big Bang swallow the universe's antimatter, allowing matter to dominate the cosmos?

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

The JWST has detected more active black holes than expected, casting doubt on their prevalence in the early universe.

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...