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More than a hundred years ago, long before anyone imagined supercomputers or black hole ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

In a breakthrough, a team of computational astrophysicists has developed the most comprehensive model ...

A high-altitude balloon telescope has revealed new patterns in X-rays emitted near the black hole Cygnus X-1. These signals ...