Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But ...

2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months.

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

Black holes are significant within the scientific exploration of space. They are places in space where gravity is incredibly strong, so much so that not even light can evade it.  The center of a black ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

New observations suggest that the relationship between light emitted by quasars has changed over cosmic time, hinting that ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas ...

The borderlands of black holes ought to be chaotic spaces where the rate at which matter is drawn across into oblivion is ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.