The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...

Scientists have discovered a way to create black holes without the mysterious singularities where physics breaks down. By ...

Black holes have been fascinating subjects of study, not just because they are cosmic vacuum cleaners, but also as engines of ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum ...

The properties of black holes that make them so bizarre.

They act like a natural clock, helping us understand how matter moves as it falls in, allowing us to test extreme physics, ...

Here are some possibilities 1st monster black hole ever pictured erupts with surprise ... As astronomers continue to attempt to solve this mystery, the Einstein Probe promises to set up even ...

A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky ...

The team behind new research on the topic suggests that measuring whether gravitational waves from black hole mergers are right- or left-handed can tell us if the Cosmological Principle — an ...