Astronomers have discovered a rogue intermediate mass black hole blasting out jets over 3,000 light-years from the heart of ...

New research suggests that if primordial black holes exist, there is a 90% chance our telescopes could detect one exploding ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe. For decades, physicists believed their explosive deaths ...

Two black holes collided 1.3 billion light years from Earth, creating a 'ringing,' which in turn allowed astrophysicists to ...

However, recent research suggests that some binary black hole mergers may not occur in isolation, but rather under the 'gaze' ...

A decade ago, the universe whispered, and humanity, for the first time, had the tools to listen. On September 14, 2015, the ...

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

(Main image) Theoretical illustration of a 'black hole star' (Illustration) JWST (Image credit: T. Müller/A. de Graaff/Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) ...

An artist's concept of a star's remnants forming a disk around a black hole. Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking ...

On January 14, 2025, a gravitational wave dubbed GW250114 reached Earth. Like its predecessor, GW150914, it came from a pair ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

A supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of a relatively close galaxy is firing off a rapid-fire slew of ultrafast gas "bullets" into the surrounding galaxy. This is the conclusion of an ...