Emirati national Aisha Al Yazeedi, a research scientist at the NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Center for Astro, Particle, and Planetary Physics, has published her first research…
In 1916, Albert Einstein put the finishing touches on his Theory of General Relativity, a journey that began in 1905 with his attempts to reconcile…
The black holes at the centers of galaxies are the most mysterious objects in the Universe, not only because of the huge quantities of material…
What happens inside a black hole stays inside a black hole, but what happens inside a black hole’s “sphere of influence” – the innermost region…
For the first time, astronomers have singled out light coming from behind a black hole, enabling them to study the processes on its far side….
Black holes, detected by their gravitational wave signal as they collide with other black holes, could be the product of much earlier parent collisions. Such…
Supermassive black holes in the universe swallow gas around them. The infalling gas is called black hole accretion flow. In a study published in Nature…
Two gravitational wave signals from an entirely new class of cosmic collisions have been discovered by researchers working on the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo…
First Detection of Light From Behind a Black Hole Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of…
Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and…
Salvatore Vitale describes how gravitational-wave signals suggest black holes completely devoured their companion neutron stars. Recently, an international team of scientists, including researchers at MIT,…
In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may curve around them several times. This phenomenon may enable us…
General relativity is a profoundly complex mathematical theory, but its description of black holes is amazingly simple. A stable black hole can be described by…
Gravitational wave detectors have observed a new type of cataclysmic event in the cosmos: the merger of a neutron star with a black hole. The…
One of the most cherished laws of physics — the conservation of charge — has come under fire in “startling” research by physicists. The paper…
Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster. This is firstly because it is one of the “fluffiest” clusters in the halo of our Galaxy, with…
Study offers evidence, based on gravitational waves, to show that the total area of a black hole’s event horizon can never decrease. There are certain…
New research shows how the fundamental law of conservation of charge could break down near a black hole. Singularities, such as those at the centre…