The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

"It's the dawn of a new era of black hole physics," it added. The black hole is often referred to as Sgr A*, pronounced sadge ay star. Its mass is about 4 million times that of the sun, ...

When the first black-hole collision was detected in 2015, it was a watershed moment in the history of astronomy. Using gravitational waves, astronomers were observing the universe in an entirely ...

A BLACK HOLE’S HOME The galaxy M87 sits about 55 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Unlike the Milky Way’s stunning spirals, M87 is a blobby giant elliptical galaxy.

Black holes have kept astrophysicists awake at night since their theoretical conception. A new study explores singularity-free alternatives to these mysterious objects. Since Einstein formulated ...

A powerful new technique is poised to revolutionize how astronomers observe black holes, by producing sharp, multicolored images that could reveal their dynamic evolution in real time.

For decades scientists have believed there is a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. For the first time this week, they released an astonishing image of it, about 27,000 light years ...

Even more, the first picture of a black hole heralds a new era in physics. Now that they can observe these bizarre objects directly, experts say we can expect an avalanche of new observations ...

But he said the black hole photographed by the EHT project provides a critical fact check on any theoretical number crunching. “Whatever theory of gravity that I came up with must create that ...

Black holes are awesome, and I hope you enjoy this video on what they might be and how they might work. But if black holes aren't your thing, fear not—we have a lot more episodes of "Edge of ...

The findings, published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggest that the black hole was born supermassive − roughly equal to 10 and 100 million suns − during the earliest era of the ...

We understand how black holes form in the present era. When a giant star dies, it leaves behind a black hole up to a few dozen times the mass of the sun.