Black Holes

The quasar, as bright as 500 trillion suns, has evaded astronomers for over 40 years because of its incredible luminosity

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open a new era in astronomy that brings scientists to the brink of studying gravitational waves from the beginning of time

The earliest active supermassive black hole ever seen offers clues on how these enigmatic objects first formed

A new simulation shows black holes ripping apart and consuming their accretion disk in a matter of months, which may explain why some quasars quickly brighten and dim

Physicist John Cardy and his colleague just won the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. We spoke with Cardy about conformal field theory, 2D black holes and coffee filters

Black holes in the extraordinarily distant cosmos are out of tune with their host galaxies, offering insights into their formation

Before leading the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer co-authored a paper explaining that the most massive stars must eventually become what we would now call a black hole

Researchers, using the galaxy as a detector, believe they have detected gravitational waves from monster black holes for the first time.

Astrophysicists are tuning in to a never-before-seen type of gravitational wave spawned by pairs of supermassive black holes

Particle by particle, all matter may eventually disappear, according to new calculations

Some of the most violent cosmic collisions occur silently in the vacuum of space, but with the right instrumental ears, we can still hear it happen. Here’s how.

The laws of physics allow time travel. So why haven’t people become chronological hoppers?