For decades, black holes have stood as the most enigmatic objects in the universe, defying our understanding of space, time, ...

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 ...

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

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

Black holes are significant within the scientific exploration of space. They are places in space where gravity is incredibly strong, so much so that not even light can evade it.  The center of a black ...

Astronomers have finally captured a black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime. This phenomenon, known as ...

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But ...

A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

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

The researchers in a recent breakthrough have successfully modelled luminous black hole accretion, the process of matter ...

The borderlands of black holes ought to be chaotic spaces where the rate at which matter is drawn across into oblivion is held back only by the blinding fury of radiation spilling away from the edge ...