A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.
Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright ...
2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months.
Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...
Something strange is happening on the outskirts of our Solar System. It could be a large, mysterious planet. Or, it could be ...
A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas ...
A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole ...
A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about ...
A black hole 30 million times the mass of the sun has produced winds one-fifth the speed of light, stunning scientists.
In a major leap forward, scientists, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), have captured the sharpest images yet of distant galactic centers. Using light at a frequency of 345 GHz, they’ve peered ...
Researchers say they have discovered what may be the closest known black hole to Earth, which they have dubbed "the Unicorn." The black hole is about three times the mass of our sun, meaning it is ...
Inside Silke Weinfurtner’s laboratory at the University of Nottingham in the UK, a giant water tank is helping her team better understand the complexity of the universe by standing in as an analogue ...