Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

Using a chain of atoms in single file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists in 2022 observed ...

"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout." ...

Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the ...

Shubhanshu Shukla recalled being cautious about releasing objects in his initial days on the station. “I had this strange ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

New observations of two black holes merging have confirmed predictions made decades ago by Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, ...

As a massive black hole located 55 million light-years from Earth, the black hole at the center of M87 has a mass equivalent to 6.5 billion suns. Its powerful gravitational field causes severe ...

Since that day, LIGO — composed of two highly sensitive laser interferometers located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...