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

A newly published study in The Astrophysical Journal has revealed the presence of a previously undetected supermassive black ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar – a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic particles. Come too close to one, and you’d get sucked in by its gravitational ...

Leist | Hamilton, New Jersey It’s true, no light can escape a black hole’s “event horizon,” or boundary, says Avi Loeb, a theorist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

A black hole, seven times the mass of the Sun and located nearly 5,000 light-years away, has been confirmed as the first to ...

Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are ... and spent three years at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics, followed by a research fellowship in Trieste, Italy, His research ...

This past April, a picture of a black hole, captured by a global network ... and coordinated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The German physicist Karl Schwarzschild predicted ...

A team of researchers has engineered a groundbreaking optical device that mimics the physics of black holes and their ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

Through a series of theoretical analyses, this resonance between modes in black holes was shown to be one example of a whole host of physical phenomena in not only astrophysics, but optical ...