The 2026 budget request states that NSF will operate only one of the two LIGO sites, drastically reducing its cosmic listening ability.
Extreme nuclear transients are 10 million times rarer than supernovae and emit the same amount of energy as 100 Suns.
The lightless behemoths are explored in new simulations of their interactions with extremely dense stars.
The findings suggest black holes could provide a cheaper, natural alternative to billion-dollar particle colliders, if we can figure out how to harness them.
Using multiple wavelengths and some atmospheric jiu-jitsu, astronomers are changing how we see the universe.
The jig is up for this supermassive cosmic predator.
Black hole singularities might be the beginning rather than an end, new research suggests.
A new study lends credence to the radical idea that our universe sits within a black hole.
NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.
LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos turn.
Astronomers have never detected mid-infrared flares from our galaxy's supermassive black hole—until now.
Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds of gas and dust.
An ancient black hole had to take it easy after gorging itself on its local galaxy, offering hints at the exotic objects' evolution.
From black hole jets to auroras on Mars, this year had plenty of astrophysical wonder.
The research team says it’s time to “think outside the box” since nothing else is working.
M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by the universe's most extreme environments.
A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of energetic particles, raising questions about its identity.
The Event Horizon Telescope's famous image of Sagittarius A* may depict an artifact, raising questions about the black hole's true structure.
The roughly four-billion-year-old system consists of a black hole and two orbiting stars—a configuration that's never been seen before.
The gargantuan object is driving a "cosmic two-for-one" that could shed light on the source of a weird kind of X-ray.
