Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

Black holes may seem like interstellar enigmas, but they hold some key lessons on how to move through the universe.

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions seen since the Big Bang.

Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here's how the process unfolds.

The magnetic fields are more than a thousand times stronger than the magnetic field used in MRI machines.

There is only indirect evidence of the existence of black holes. A laboratory demonstration of an X-ray interferometer is a step towards achieving the angular resolution necessary to obtain a ...

Black holes, the densest objects in the universe, eat up anything that comes too close, even light. Is there anything left inside these behemoths that could reveal what they devoured in the first ...

It turns out there is a way to make a coloured black hole—as long as by colour you mean quantum chromodynamic charge. PBS Space Time is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.