Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and ...

At the center of the Milky Way galaxy exists a supermassive black hole that's more than four million times the sun's mass. A human traveling to the black hole's surface, known as the event horizon and ...

Anyone who has watched Matthew McConaughey plunge into a supermassive black hole in "Interstellar" may think they have a rough idea of what it'd be like to encounter one of these terrifying cosmic ...

The simulation run by Hayashi and his colleagues sheds new light on the complex physics of binary neutron star mergers, showing that when these mergers are followed by the formation of black holes, ...