One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), using Hawking radiation. This groundbreaking approach relies upon watching ...

A supermassive black hole located 1.2 billion light-years away shows signs of intense activity. Observations reveal matter ...

The three examples the team highlighted in a new study describe supermassive black holes feasting on stars more than three times as massive as our own sun.The events, dubbed “extreme nuclear ...

A Tale of Two Black Holes: Multiband Gravitational-wave Measurement of Recoil Kicks. The Astrophysical Journal, 2025; 983 (1): 27 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adba4e; Chayan Chatterjee, Karan Jani.

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the second time a tidal disruption event has been seen in interacting galaxies.

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the second time a tidal disruption event has been seen in interacting galaxies.

It’s the largest black hole jet we’ve discovered to date. What makes this particular jet so exciting for astronomers is not only its size. It’s also estimated to be 1.2 billion years old.

An artist's concept of a black hole orbited by a neutron star. Image: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) When a black hole and a neutron star finally meet, the result is cosmic carnage—and now, thanks to ...