In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

Learn what a black hole is, how it forms, and how astronomers detect it. Understand the science behind black holes and their ...

A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the ...

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

The flare has been going on for seven years as a supermassive black hole consumes a massive star that ventured too close.

Black holes, regions of immense gravity preventing light escape, were theoretically predicted by Einstein's general relativity and confirmed through observations of intense X-ray sources like Cygnus X ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...