Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

The bold question-askers at What If imagine the cosmic consequences of a collision between a black hole and a white hole.

The bold question-askers at What If explore why having a black hole in our Solar System would be a catastrophic scenario.

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...

A new paper claims astronomers discovered an ultramassive black hole heavier than any other black hole we've ever measured.

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day.. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...

"The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, has a mass of approximately four million times that of the Sun, but it only looks like a tiny dot from Earth ...

One of my favorite celestial objects in the universe is the black hole. Granted, I'm an astrophysicist. But I know I'm not alone. People love black holes. They seem to hold a near-mythic status in ...