Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

Black holes that were far too large shortly after the Big Bang posed a puzzle for astronomy. Now, stars were discovered that ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

A flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds of more than 37,000 miles per SECOND, reveals new research. X-ray space telescopes spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole.

Some of the darkest objects in the universe are also among its brightest beacons, lighting up entire galaxies while their ...

Learn how researchers used Einstein’s theory of general relativity to create the most accurate simulations to date.

Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...

An interview with Marumi Kado highlights the challenges and opportunities of the Future Circular Collider in particle physics ...

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...

A team of computational astrophysicists has developed a simulation that explains the behavior of matter around black holes.