Hidden in the ‘Infinity Galaxy,’ a black hole floats in space where none should exist, upending old ideas about black hole birth.

Black holes are some of the most enigmatic and terrifying phenomena in the universe. These cosmic giants possess gravitational forces so intense that not even light can escape their grasp. While black ...

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

They often twirl around heavier ones, like our Milky Way, as satellite dancers. The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way ...

The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

The biggest black hole merger yet observed could confirm a rare class of black holes long thought to be missing from the universe.

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...