A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark ...

A black hole bomb - an idea first proposed in 1969 - has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared. An enormous black hole in the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple) and infrared data from NASA's James ...

In a galaxy 300 million light-years away from Earth, a once-quiet black hole has woken up. Astronomers became aware of this galaxy in the Virgo constellation when it abruptly began to light up in ...

The lone black hole without a companion star is located 5,000 light-years away. A team of scientists have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole that has no star orbiting it in the Milky Way ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Messier 83 galaxy. Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument detected highly ...

WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...