A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves ...

A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark ...

The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...

T he gravitational field of a rotating black hole is powerful and strange. It is so powerful that it warps space and time back upon itself, and it is so strange that even simple concepts such as ...

All of this is calculated with the equations that underpin general relativity: Einstein's field equations ... goes into a black hole must eventually come out of it." An illustration of matter ...

The simplest of these models would represent a flare from an X-ray point source somewhere above the black hole which produces a time-varying illumination pattern that sweeps across the disk that is ...

A new paper provides scientists with a groundbreaking tool for understanding cataclysmic events. Physicist Glennys Farrar has ...

The new field of gravitational wave astronomy is officially underway. Produced by Brad Streicher. Original reporting by Rebecca Harrington and Sarah Kramer. Follow TI: On Facebook More from Tech ...

Black holes are objects with an intense gravitational pull so strong that not even beams of light, the fastest things in the universe, can escape. This makes them impossible to see directly ...