ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

For the first time, a binary black hole merger, observed in November 2024, has been linked with a short gamma-ray burst (GRB), a phenomenon that was previously thought impossible. This unprecedented ...

University of Oregon astronomer Yvette Cendes made a surprising discovery years after a black hole shredded a star. What is "Jetty McJetface"?

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

A newly analyzed gravitational-wave event has revealed something unexpected about one of the Universe’s most violent encounters. Scientists have found the first strong evidence that a black hole and a ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples ...

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit just before merging. This unusual motion, detected in the ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

The puzzle of how supermassive black holes grew so large just after the Big Bang could soon be solved. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Astronomers discovered a "behemoth" black hole weighing as much as 17 billion suns in a remote part of the universe, according to a report published Wednesday. Black holes are collapsed stars — ...