New data reveals black hole jets can accelerate at speeds defying all physical laws, leaving astronomers without a clear ...

If this new model of the universe is right, there were boson stars and cannibal stars hundreds of millions of years before ...

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Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

Might the universe’s most extreme black holes owe their existence to magnetism? In 2023, gravitational wave detectors LIGO, ...

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion ...

A team of scientists has developed a recipe for black holes that eliminates one of the most troubling aspects of physics: the central singularity, the point at which all our theories, laws and models ...

In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away. The progenitor black holes were 20 and 6 solar masses and the larger ...

For obvious reasons, we do not know what the inside of a black hole looks like. But thanks to theoretical physics, we can ask ...

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Astronomers knew something did not add up when detectors picked up a vast cosmic crash in 2023. The signal, later named ...