Gravitational wave detectors on Earth have heard the "cry" of two newborn black holes with some unusual and remarkable ...

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports on the ...

By zeroing in on the infrared scale, researchers offer details of the black hole jet stream in faraway galaxy M87.

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

New results from an international team including UBC astrophysicists highlight the first black hole observed to be spinning ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could ...