The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

A powerful new technique is poised to revolutionize how astronomers observe black holes, by producing sharp, multicolored ...

Black holes have kept astrophysicists awake at night since their theoretical conception. A new study explores singularity-free alternatives to these mysterious objects. Since Einstein formulated ...

The findings, published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggest that the black hole was born supermassive − roughly equal to 10 and 100 million suns − during the earliest era of the ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar feature: the singularity at the center—a point, hidden behind the ...

Black holes have kept astrophysicists awake at night since their theoretical conception. A new study explores singularity-free alternatives to these mysterious objects. Since Einstein formulated ...

A Sea of Black Holes: Characterizing the LISA Signature for Stellar-origin Black Hole Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal , 2025; 981 (1): 27 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adad6b ...

If a binary black hole system caused the 2.2-year periodic variation in PG 1553+153, then we should also be able to see a longer pattern of variation, ... But the era of digital astronomy, ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek giant, these jets span roughly 7 megaparsecs, or 23 million light- years.

A tiny fraction of known black holes emit X-ray signals that resemble a human "heartbeat." Now, new research may finally explain the strange phenomenon.

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...