Dark matter could produce faint flashes of light when interacting with tiny black holes, new theoretical research suggests. These flashes could one day help scientists locate and study the ...

Credit: SXS (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes) Project 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 ...

An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / M. Zamani The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a phenomenon once thought ...

Simulations have shown that gravitational interactions with the environment can bring black holes to within about a parsec (about 3.26 light-years) of each other in a decent amount of time.

First-Ever Magnetic Map of Milky Way’s Black Hole Reveals a Mystery Polarized light from Sagittarius A*, our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, shows swirling magnetic fields that may hint at ...

Black holes are the universe’s shadowy figures, with many millions of them roaming unseen in our galaxy alone. These cosmic heavyweights famously destroy anything that wanders too close ...

"Overall, it's not surprising that black holes should be in triples, but what's surprising is that this system held onto the outer star after forming the black hole." Astronomers have discovered ...

The two newly discovered black holes were not found directly. Instead, astronomers scanned through the treasure trove of over 3 billion stellar measurements captured with the spacecraft so far.

Out of curiosity, Burdge reviewed an image of V404 Cygni—a black hole about 8,000 light years from Earth that was one of the very first objects ever to be confirmed as a black hole, in 1992.

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that dates back to just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang — and the ancient monster is gobbling up matter at an astonishing rate. According to the ...

Black holes merge by releasing gravitational waves and energy Energy loss drives black holes closer until their event horizons collide Merged black holes release ...