Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright ...

Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The ...

Black holes — remnants of collapsed stars — have immense mass that curves spacetime so all paths lead inward. They also ...

Astronomers have spotted three merging galaxies where all central black holes are actively feeding and radio bright, ...

This week in science: the choice between tea or coffee could have greater consequences than you think; interstellar comet ...

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 ...

Black hole science in 2025 did not advance in gentle increments. It lurched forward in giant steps, from record shattering ...