could shed light on the universe’s earliest days and provide insight into how black holes and galaxies evolved. Light takes time to travel across space, which means observing distant objects in the ...

Black holes don’t just warp space, they sing. And now, for the first time, we’ve figured out what their cosmic echoes really ...

Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the universe, more than 13 billion years ago ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest, most distant black hole yet – and it's surprisingly monstrous for its time.

Scientists look to black holes to know exactly where we are in the universe. But phones and Wi-Fi are blocking the view by Lucia McCallum, The Conversation edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew ...

A happy coincidence and a theory first put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago helped scientists detect faint ...

A bold new proposal envisions launching laser-propelled nanocraft to a nearby black hole to test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the Universe – a reputation not helped by the difficulty of studying ...

Exploring the BTZ black hole in (2+1)-dimensional gravity took me down a fascinating rabbit hole, connecting ideas I never expected—like black holes and topological phases in quantum matter ...

Scientists discovered a distant black hole 300 million times the size of the sun. It's a portal back in time. Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that ...

And with the rise of wifi, mobile phones and satellite internet, travel on that highway is starting to look like a traffic jam. Why we need black holes ...