Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away.

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Researchers detect the clearest black hole signal to date, enabling tests of Hawking's area theorem and advancing ...

Pairs of black holes have been detected in the past through their gravitational effects, but until now, scientists have never ...

WASHINGTON - Scientists are observing the most energetic flare ever seen emanating from a supermassive black hole, apparently ...

A Scottish artist has donated two new paintings to the University of Glasgow to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves.

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...

Astronomers have detected two extraordinary gravitational wave events that may have come from black holes formed in earlier ...