
Black Hole Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Physics
Half the award goes to Roger Penrose, with the rest split between Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, for work revealing the “darkest secrets of the universe”

Black Hole Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Physics
Half the award goes to Roger Penrose, with the rest split between Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, for work revealing the “darkest secrets of the universe”

The First Ever Image of a Black Hole Is Now a Movie
Pictures created from old observations show the void’s stormy evolution over the past decade


Tiny Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Search Anywhere in the Sky
A much smaller and more reproducible version of LIGO could transform gravitational-wave astronomy

This Black-Hole Collision Just Made Gravitational Waves Even More Interesting
An unprecedented signal from unevenly sized objects gives astronomers rare insight into how black holes spin

Meet “Spikey,” a Possible Pair of Merging Supermassive Black Holes
A flare predicted for this spring could confirm the object is indeed two monstrous black holes coming together

Did Astronomers Just Discover Black Holes from the Big Bang?
Gravitational waves attributed to the collision of two neutron stars could have been produced by something much stranger

Escape from a Black Hole
To save quantum mechanics, information must break free from black holes. New observations may help tell us how

Hidden Passage: Could We Spy a Traversable Wormhole in the Milky Way’s Heart?
Anomalous motions of stars orbiting our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole might reveal the existence of long-hypothesized tunnels through spacetime

Giant “Bubbles” Spotted around the Milky Way’s Black Hole
First major result from South Africa’s pioneering MeerKAT radio telescope reveals remnants of energetic explosions at the galaxy’s center

An Exit Chute from the Universe: The Story of a Historic Effort to Image a Black Hole
After more than a decade of effort, a global network of radio telescopes revealed the first-ever picture of an enigmatic hole in spacetime

At Last, a Black Hole’s Image Revealed
The Event Horizon Telescope captures one of the universe’s most mysterious objects

Gravitational-Wave Astronomers Detect Hints of Largest Black-Hole Merger Yet
Physicists at the LIGO experiment have now detected 11 cosmic events that produce ripples in the fabric of space-time