It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar created a black hole that would later turn out to be fairly scientifically accurate.

Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and then the galaxy around ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black holes—could harbor two black holes rather than one. That theory, long ...

In a recent study, astronomers reported the discovery of a rare double nucleus in the nearby galaxy NGC 4486B, located close ...

Astronomers have seen spacetime itself wobble near a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, revealed during a star’s destruction, confirms a major prediction of Einstein’s theory of ...

Exploring the BTZ black hole in (2+1)-dimensional gravity took me down a fascinating rabbit hole, connecting ideas I never expected—like black holes and topological phases in quantum matter! When I ...

A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known. New research suggests that ...

In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally explains how this "forbidden" black hole came to be, and what it can teach ...

Two of them were exactly where the double black holes of the quasar had been predicted to be, and the third was a knot in one of their jets—filaments of high-speed particles expelled from near the ...