Black Holes

At long last, the definitive discovery completes a trifecta of astrophysical events that were forecast by gravitational-wave astronomers

If such an object a mere 1,000 times bigger than an atom passed through your body, the result would not be pretty

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

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

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

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”

Pictures created from old observations show the void’s stormy evolution over the past decade

A much smaller and more reproducible version of LIGO could transform gravitational-wave astronomy

An unprecedented signal from unevenly sized objects gives astronomers rare insight into how black holes spin

A flare predicted for this spring could confirm the object is indeed two monstrous black holes coming together

Gravitational waves attributed to the collision of two neutron stars could have been produced by something much stranger

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