For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

Using a chain of atoms in single file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists in 2022 observed ...

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

While global fascination with UFOs and alien life continues to surge, famed physicist Stephen Hawking long urged caution, arguing that humanity's eagerness to make contact with extraterrestrial ...

Black hole merger detected by LIGO offers the strongest proof yet of Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions. The findings confirm black holes are defined by spin and mass. Their event ...

We typically only think of Stephen Hawking as the brilliant theoretical physicist confined to a wheelchair. But the trailer for "The Theory of Everything" shows Hawking in a whole new human light.

New observations of two black holes merging have confirmed predictions made decades ago by Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Roy Kerr. A decade ago, scientists first picked up ripples in the ...

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured distinctive ringing signals ...

Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace.

Today in things you never thought you’d see: Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking performed Monty Python’s “Galaxy Song” in a new video from the beloved British comedy troupe. The clip is half live footage ...