Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The ...

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

Astronomers have captured an unusual ballet: a star, torn apart by the titanic forces of a supermassive black hole, exhibits rhythmic oscillations in its orbit that do not match the classical ...

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

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

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

Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates philosophical confusion and fuels misconceptions, such as time-travel paradoxes ...

We've been through the first few episodes of our crash course on general relativity, and came out alive! But it's officially "time" for CURVED spacetime. Join Gabe on this week’s episode of PBS Space ...

Imagine if we could use strong electromagnetic fields to manipulate the local properties of spacetime—this could have important ramifications in terms of science and engineering. Electromagnetism has ...

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