When a star gets too close to a black hole, the gravity of the black hole changes what happens next in really big ways. They ...

Physicists have spent a century trying to reconcile the smooth fabric of spacetime in general relativity with the jittery ...

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A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole ...

Astronomers have finally captured a black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime. This phenomenon, known as ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

Astronomers have finally watched a black hole twist spacetime in real time, catching the fabric of the universe itself ...

Based on Einstein's theory, they demonstrated that if a massive object rotates rapidly, it drags space-time along with it.

A new concept for energy transfer between gravitational waves and light. When massive cosmic objects such as black holes merge or neutron stars crash into one another, they can produce gravitational ...

A supermassive black hole was caught twisting spacetime, offering the clearest real-world evidence yet for Einstein’s ...

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star ...

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