The researchers found that the emitted dark matter would ring space-time like a bell around the black hole. It would not be ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event a billion light-years away: two supermassive black holes orbiting each other ...

The jets dubbed Porphyrion stretch for 23 million light years, equal to 140 Milky Ways lined up side by side. They erupted ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

A radical hypothesis suggesting black holes could be behind the accelerating expansion of our universe has been stirring up controversy among astronomers. A new study may contain the first ...

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Physicists at MIT and Caltech have discovered the first “black hole triple,” a formation more than 8,000 light years from Earth that experts say expands the current understanding of how black ...

A "black hole triple" system has been discovered for the first time, scientists announced. Black holes have only been spotted on their own or in a binary until this discovery, with a single star ...

Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here's how the process unfolds. The story begins with two black holes orbiting far from each other in long ...

The ghosts of stars are up to their usual mischief. By Dennis Overbye Just in time for Halloween, two black holes are in the news. One is a serial killer, on the verge of devouring its second star ...

Many of the black holes previously found are thought to be part of a pair. Those pairs form when a black holes becomes entwined with another object – such as another black hole, a star or ...

Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to be measured, ...