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University of Oregon astronomer Yvette Cendes made a surprising discovery years after a black hole shredded a star. What is ...

We go in depth on black holes: the strangest objects in the universe! Black holes are not just the strangest objects in the universe, they're the sharpest test we have of how reality actually works.

In 1974, physicist Stephen Hawking described the potential for tiny, primordial black holes that existed at the dawn of time ...

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

Black holes that turn matter into energy could explain dark energy and answer two other cosmic questions. Now, the challenge ...

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...

Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves may be the key to solving the Hubble tension — one of the biggest nagging problems in physics.

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought was possible. Reading time 4 minutes When LIGO broke news of an ...

Some of the darkest objects in the universe are also among its brightest beacons, lighting up entire galaxies while their neighbors stay strangely subdued. The latest generation of supercomputer ...

The deepest mysteries of the universe often begin with the biggest questions. Few are more puzzling than the birth of supermassive black holes. These giants, weighing millions to billions of times ...

The extraordinarily rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe puzzles astronomers, with current models ...