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

leading to the theory that they form from mergers of smaller black holes. The first detection of gravitational waves from ...

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

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

Black holes and soccer balls don't have much in common, but if black holes are curved when kicked, it might say something ...

Scientists Claim That Gravitational Waves Could Retrace the Origins of Black Holes in Dense Stars Black holes have always ...

Finding patterns and reducing noise in large, complex datasets generated by the gravitational wave-detecting LIGO facility ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

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