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

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.

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Scientists say they've spotted the first runaway supermassive black hole that's rocketing away from its home at a staggering speed.

Supermassive black holes are an anomaly that sits quietly at the centers of galaxies, holding gas and stars closer with their ...

Cutting-edge supercomputer simulations reveal intricate processes around black holes, improving our understanding of ...

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

One of the greatest mysteries the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was developed to investigate was the birth of ...

When a star gets too close to a black hole, the gravity of the black hole changes what happens next in really big ways. They ...