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Magnetic Field around a Black Hole Mapped for the First Time

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

Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics

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

What 50 Gravitational-Wave Events Reveal about the Universe

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

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

The Puzzle of the First Black Holes

Astronomers are puzzled about how the oldest supermassive black holes could have grown so big so early in cosmic history

LIGO’s Latest Black-Hole Merger Confirms Einstein, Challenges Astrophysics

New results from the gravitational wave observatory hint that black holes move in mysterious ways

Giant Black Holes May Be on a Collision Course

Astronomers have found what may be two supermassive black holes in a quasar due to become one in roughly 21 years

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

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