"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." "Roses are red. Violets are blue. Your event horizon means I can't ...

An international team of researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Chandra X-ray observatory has discovered a bizarre black hole that may provide insights into the ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*). This study ...

"These observations provide a more complete picture of the black hole's environment and its dynamics." It may have been the first black hole imaged by humanity, but the eating habits of the ...

These black holes feed on surrounding gas, releasing powerful jets that cool the gas and form filaments The universe's most massive black holes fuel themselves by cooling gas around them ...

Such waves are produced in some of the most violent events in the universe, like supernovae, black-hole mergers or the big bang itself. Just like electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves have a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...

Space experts have uncovered a massive swarm of new supermassive black holes that could blow theories about galaxies wide open. A team of scientists using data from two NASA telescopes revealed ...

FRANKFURT. Six years after the historic release of the first-ever image of a black hole, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration unveils a new analysis of the supermassive black hole at ...