“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest ...

"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...

The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather ...

It took place some 750 million light-years away, flaring into the detectors of the Zwicky Transient Facility on 7 July. At ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

Violent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the ...

They wouldn’t last for long, but the emissions from tiny black hole buds could light the way to quantum gravity.