In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

Scientists have observed the largest black hole merger ever detected, marking a historic breakthrough in astrophysics. The ...

The study calculated how large a hollow planetoid could be without collapsing in on itself, and the likelihood of a primordial black hole passing through an object on Earth. (If you’re worried about a ...

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

Imagine the formation of a black hole and you’ll probably envision a massive star running out of fuel and collapsing in on itself. Yet the chaotic conditions of the early universe may have also ...

To put their own minds at ease, the researchers also calculated the likelihood that one of these tiny black holes would strike Earth and found it would only happen roughly once in a billion years.