Black Holes

A recently spotted bright light in the sky is improving astronomers’ understanding of stellar death

The $25-million facility in Namibia will be the continent’s first millimeter-range astronomical observatory

Weighing in at seven times the mass of our sun, the dark object is by far the best-yet candidate for a free-floating stellar-mass black hole

Subtle signals from black hole mergers might confirm the existence of “Hawking radiation”—and gravitational-wave detectors may have already seen them

Recent work has shown how “naked singularities” might defy the cosmic censorship conjecture

In trying to explain the spectacular star trails of the star cluster Palomar 5, astronomers stumbled on a very large trove of black holes.

New research shows that there are problems even quantum computers might never be able to solve

At long last, the definitive discovery completes a trifecta of astrophysical events that were forecast by gravitational-wave astronomers

If such an object a mere 1,000 times bigger than an atom passed through your body, the result would not be pretty

Images from the Event Horizon Telescope reveal new details of how supermassive black holes produce huge jets of matter and energy

Recent results from a pulsar timing array, which uses dead stars to hunt for gravitational waves, has scientists speculating about cosmic strings and primordial black holes

Astrophysicists now have enough black-hole mergers to map their frequency over the cosmos’s history