By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

Black holes do not have many defining characteristics that can help astronomers trace back their origins. Fortunately, new ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

When NASA detects two black holes colliding, the cosmos is in a state of chaos. Black holes lie at the centre of most ...

In other words, when galaxies merged, so did their central black holes. Each galaxy brings a rotation rate and orientation to the merger. The rotations could just as easily cancel each other out ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi The energetic streams are together 23 million light ...

The dominant theory — that black holes start feeding and their jets turn on when galaxies merge — is called the major merger model. “To have such a clear, unambiguous result that seems to ...

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Additionally, the daughter black hole created in the merger also has spin, and just as with a kicked soccer ball, this can be either right-handed or left ...