Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." ...

The black holes rip the stars apart and consume their stellar debris — becoming more massive, Northwestern explained. This increases their gravitational pull and draws them together as they orbit..

Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from its edge," ...

Black holes spin in captivating embrace in stunning new simulation imagery - Binary black holes move in tandem before merging ...

In the case of those first detections, the signal was produced by pairs of black holes within our galaxy that had been orbiting one another and eventually merged. Although gravity holds us down on ...

A new study shows black holes can form without singularities, using only modifications to Einstein’s equations.

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Black and white colourable poster featuring two hands clasped together. One hand is decorated with intricate patterns while the other hand is blank. Kick-off of this year’s BHM campaign by downloading ...

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ...