Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to ...

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

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Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

As you can probably imagine by this point, falling into a black hole would be terrifying. "If you fell into a black hole, the gravitational pull would stretch you out in a process called ...