To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected mergers involved either two black holes or two neutron stars. In 2021, ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Enrique Rico Ortega and Sofia Vallecorsa explain how quantum computing will allow physicists to model complex dynamics, from ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...

In the 1970s, physicist James Peebles and astronomers Jeremiah Ostriker and Amos Yahil created computer simulations of individual ... They suggested that whatever dark matter is − be it cold stars, ...

NASA data shows possibility that we exist within a black hole. And that our universe might not the only universe in existence.

This new research gives credence to a theory that posits our galaxy is inside of a black hole, which in turn is located inside another, bigger parent universe. Getty According to Space.com, this ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

Black holes have been fascinating subjects of study, not just because they are cosmic vacuum cleaners, but also as engines of immense power capable of extracting and redistributing energy on a ...

While investigating a mysterious radiation signal unlike any seen before, astronomers may have uncovered a rare pair of binary supermassive black holes with a truly monstrous appetite.

Physics Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries Physicists finally know whether black holes destroy the information contained in infalling matter.