"It boggles the mind! The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous. And yet, ...

When two black holes slam together, they do not simply vanish into darkness, they ring like struck bells and briefly light up ...

Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

A new study on some 1,600 galaxies based on data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that many small galaxies do not ...

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion light-years away. The enormous masses and extreme spins of the black holes ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time literally no longer make sense." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

In December 2019, an ordinary galaxy 300 million light-years from us in the constellation Virgo suddenly woke up. After decades of inactivity, the black hole at the galaxy's heart burst with light.

Astronomers usually detect black holes by looking for X-rays. When gas and dust fall toward a black hole, they heat up and ...

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of life on our world. The moon spins, too.

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...