Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least ...

Astronomers led by Song Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have discovered an unusual celestial phenomenon, ...

Black holes are on a continuum of ultradense objects that form from the remnant cores of dead stars after they run out of ...

LOS ANGELES — A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic ...

GRBs might stem from neutron stars colliding, binary stars merging, black holes swallowing stars, or stars going supernova. Patterns in the arrival times of the gamma rays can help us decide which ...

In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These events occur when ...

The new Fourth Plinth sculpture by Teresa Margolles is unveiled at Trafalgar Square. The artwork is made from plaster casts of the faces of 726 living trans people in Mexico and is a tribute to the ...

That’s where X-rays come in. Most known black holes exist in binary systems, where they have a companion star. The black hole ...

Like two Sumo wrestlers squaring off, the closest confirmed pair of supermassive black holes have been observed in tight proximity.

Chinese scientists used radial velocity and astrometry methods to discover a promising mass-gap black hole in the binary ...

Over the past six decades, scientists have discovered two dozen stellar-mass black holes using X-ray methods. These black ...