A supermassive black hole that doesn't appear to be where we would expect seems to be travelling at more than a thousand ...

When two enormous black holes collide in deep space, they send shockwaves rippling across the universe. These shockwaves, ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer Takafumi Tsukui.

The new result can help ... Black Hole Pairs May Unveil New Particles Sep. 17, 2024 — In a new paper, physicists argue that close observations of merging black hole pairs may unveil information ...

This third detection -- which comes after the first in September 2015 and the second in December 2015 -- appears to be the result of two black holes merging and forming a new black hole about 49 ...

Partly that's because any such black hole should lie at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, but its center is not well-defined. That's because this little galaxy is in the process of merging ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected the invisible energy fluctuations of gravitational waves created by a pair of black holes merging almost a billion ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They’ve certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations, even in popular ...

Reader Jayant Bhalerao, a college physics instructor, found the story useful in class: “We will share it with our students, so that they can appreciate how ...

A rare instance of a supermassive black hole merger has been observed, resulting in a black hole exhibiting an unusually high proper motion. The New Scientist reported that this event holds ...