A mysterious black hole has started behaving even more strangely, scientists have said. The supermassive black hole has been sending out flashes that have increased in speed. Astronomers say they ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, watched the moment a feeding supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy spat out a jet of material at one-third of the speed of light.

More precisely, the team behind the simulation discovered that binary black hole pairs formed in dense star clusters first align their spins before coming together and merging. The discovery could ...

We’ve even caught one on camera in 2019, when we finally took a direct picture of the “event horizon” that marks the point of no escape from a black hole. But why do we care? Black holes ...

Here’s how it works. The black hole at the heart of our galaxy is a real party animal, endlessly blowing cosmic bubbles. The findings aren't frivolous at all and could help us better understand ...