Black Holes

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics

Some black holes get extremely massive. Is there an upper limit to their growth?

JWST observations of light sources before the first galaxies should have formed are raising new questions about our galactic origins

Scientists are uncovering how spinning black holes launch jets, warp spacetime and shape the cosmos

After 10 years of gravitational-wave research, the LIGO Lab team at MIT is getting ready for the next generation of detectors.

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics models

After black holes devour stars, sometimes the feast comes back up

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black hole in a neighboring galaxy

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use in modeling gravitational waves

Astronomical amounts of energy could be extracted from black holes—to build a gigantic bomb, for example. Experts have now implemented this principle in the laboratory

Physicists think the insides of black holes may be complex mazes of tangled strings in higher dimensions

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that is, for all the evidence to the contrary