A galaxy billions of light years from Earth houses what may be the most massive black hole in the universe, equivalent to ...

A bold new proposal envisions launching laser-propelled nanocraft to a nearby black hole to test Albert Einstein's theory of ...

After years of follow-up study, an international research team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier ...

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through ...

An ambitious plan to test extreme physics close to a black hole would involve a space probe weighing only a few grams, ...

The binary black holes in the universe are already astonishing enough, but researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical ...

An international team of astronomers has identified the earliest black hole ever confirmed, an ancient behemoth that existed ...

The proposal is highly theoretical and likely will take at least several decades to realize, but if we’re hoping someday to ...

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an astonishing black hole. It was only just measured by scientists who managed ...

Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi has proposed a century-long mission to send a “paperclip-sized nanocraft” to a black hole using a ...

An international team of astronomers led by The University of Texas at Austin's Cosmic Frontier Center has confirmed the most ...