Scientists have witnessed evidence of a collision between black holes so huge that it defies their understanding of physics.

To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected mergers involved either two black holes or two neutron stars. In 2021, ...

In a bold statement that challenges conventional wisdom, physicist Michio Kaku claims that the Big Bang Theory is incorrect ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

A new study has been accepted by the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics that proposes two new models of black ...

An artist's concept of a black hole orbited by a neutron star. Image: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) When a black hole and a neutron star finally meet, the result is cosmic carnage—and now, thanks to ...

The concept of black holes was introduced in 1916 but physicists at the time doubted that such objects could truly exist.

An artist's concept of a star's remnants forming a disk around a black hole. Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole ...

While black holes have fascinated scientists and the public alike, another concept, the white hole, has remained more theoretical.

A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While famous for devouring anything and everything in its gravitational ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time literally no longer make sense." ...