The relatively small black holes that merged — the resulting gravitational waves were detected June 8 — were located about a billion light-years from Earth.
The gravitational waves detected so far were caused by mergers of black holes, and in one case, neutron stars. Merging supermassive black holes will dwarf those in intensity.
The collision was seen in radio and X-ray wavelengths, as well as in visible light, and took place about four billion light-years from Earth.
Researchers made progress in new research on how the relativistic jets of black holes form.
Black holes might be connected across the universe with wormholes running between them.
Astronomers have used data from several observatories to locate not one, but five very elusive supermassive black hole pairs.
The formation of supermassive black holes have been a mystery. Scientists have found that supersonic streams of gas left behind from the Big Bang holds the answers.
Researchers may have been wrong about galaxies and how much energy their black holes consume and emit.
Black holes are invisible, so measuring them can be a difficult task. Scientists have found a shortcut for weighing the space voids.
While black hole binaries are not uncommon, only one pair of orbiting supermassive black holes had been known so far.
Astrophysicists have devised a new method to study these distant and mysterious objects that does not require any new instruments or data, but instead exploits the discrepancies in existing observations.
Primordial black holes created right after the Big Bang could have helped form gold, silver, platinum and other heavy metals in our galaxy.
A huge potential black hole was detected near the heart of the Milky Way and is one hundred thousand times bigger than the sun.
A radio burst has been detected for the third time by scientists. This is the only case of a repeating signal recorded from the same source in space. Could this be our big-eyed neighbors trying to talk to us?
Artificial intelligence based networks are able to extract information from gravitational images faster than humans.
A new study theorizes that black holes might actually have cast the first light into the universe.
Black holes will one day disappear, but that contradicts what we think we know about physics.
What makes a supermassive black hole want to eat everything around it? Scientists try to solve mystery at the center of jellyfish-shaped galaxies.
Narrow jets, originating from galactic centers where supermassive black holes usually reside, typically form in opposing pairs and are among the most energetic outbursts observed in the universe.
A study of stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way tests gravitational physics, as well as Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
There are millions of black holes all over the Milky Way galaxy, so be sure to look where you’re going.
Want to see a black hole and a neutron star crash into one another? So did these scientists.
