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

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and feasting on its stellar material. The observation is ...

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

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

Ask about some mind-bending physics, and people will tend to focus on the many mind-bending oddities of quantum mechanics. But there’s no shortage of strangeness in another one of physics’ cornerstone ...

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

The black hole at the milky way galaxy's heart is seen as a bright, fuzzy orange donut-shaped object against the blackness of space. The supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy isn't just ...

For the past two decades, astronomers have been testing Einstein’s general theory of relativity using an exquisite celestial laboratory located thousands of light-years away, in the direction of the ...

Einstein’s theory of relativity has many strange consequences. Time moves slower for those traveling at high speeds, and massive objects like the Sun deform the space-time in which they sit, causing ...

Earth's spin warps space around the planet, according to a new study that confirms a key prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity. After 11 years of watching the movements of two ...

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