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

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 ...

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

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2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months.

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object with mass pulls on every other object—a result that explained falling ...

A new video from The Infographics Show dives headfirst into one of space’s most terrifying what-if scenarios by breaking down what would actually happen if you drifted too close to a supermassive ...

Observations by a system of radio telescopes have offered the first visual evidence for the existence of black hole pairs. But vital follow-up observations are needed before we know for sure. When you ...

The most massive stars in the universe are destined to explode as brilliant supernova before collapsing into black holes. Yet one huge star appears to have never fulfilled its destiny; in a twist of ...