Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

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 ...

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

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

A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole ...

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 noticed a long and very unusual luminous trail in their observations. This stretched structure, where stars ...

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

A supermassive black hole was caught twisting spacetime, offering the clearest real-world evidence yet for Einstein’s ...

Scientists observed a spinning black hole dragging space and time as it tore apart a star, confirming a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity ...

In this instance, two enormous black holes – 100 and 140 times the mass of Earth's sun – collided. The result? A black hole the size of a whopping 240 suns. Black holes this massive shouldn't be ...

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 ...