New maps reveal a vast store of hidden star-making material called "CO-dark molecular gas," found in the Cygnus X region.

A newly formed black hole, GW190412, was captured fleeing at 180,000 km/h; scientists track its entire cosmic trajectory for the first time.

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

Earth would be torn apart if a black hole approached, losing its atmosphere and oceans, with debris forming an accretion disc around the black hole.

"GW241011 and GW241110 are among the most novel events among the several hundred that the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network has ...

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detects two black hole mergers with rare spin patterns, offering evidence for hierarchical formation and ...

In January 2025, a ripple in spacetime reached Earth from more than a billion light-years away. It wasn’t light or radio ...