The merger of two black holes is a momentous event, revealing the wildest and most extreme configurations of space, time and gravity known to science.

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

Black holes get bigger as they merge, the LIGO Collaboration confirmed with a new observation that could finally prove a ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

The theorem basically says that if you have two black holes merging to form a bigger black hole, the total area of the final black hole must be at least equal to but probably bigger than the sum of ...

New views of two colliding black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking using Albert Einstein’s theory.

Earlier this year, detectors in Washington and Louisiana picked up GW250114. The signal revealed two black holes, each 33 ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

In 1971, Stephen Hawking theorized that a black hole's event horizon can never shrink. Recently, LIGO confirmed this by ...

In the vast depths of the universe, a gravitational ballet lasting hundreds of millions of years is unfolding. Two black ...

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years ...

However, recent research suggests that some binary black hole mergers may not occur in isolation, but rather under the 'gaze' ...