A global team of astronomers has produced the first image that captures both the glowing ring of matter around a supermassive ...

A black hole of unimaginable size has been discovered, challenging everything we know. This video explores its massive scale ...

Scientists have captured stunning new insights into one of the universe’s most powerful phenomena—black hole jets—by using a planet-sized network of radio telescopes. Focusing on Cygnus X-1, one of ...

What are the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope? These X-rays may offer a clue.

A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host. Astronomers observed a relatively weak but restless jet blasting outward from ...

Scientists have traced a 3,000-light-year-long cosmic jet streaming out from the first black hole ever imaged to its likely source point with the help of "significantly enhanced coverage" from the ...

Hole-y guacamole. Scientists have quantified the energy produced by the first black hole ever discovered, revealing that it ...

We experience three dimensions of space and one of time—four dimensions in total,” study co-author Richard Pinčák, of the ...

Inside an incredibly bright cluster of galaxies, a long-dormant supermassive black hole has come back to life. Radio images captured a one-million-light-year-long stream of star-forming particles and ...

An unusually massive black hole in the very early universe may be a kind of exotic, star-less black hole first theorised by Stephen Hawking. In August, Boyuan Liu at the University of Cambridge and ...

In 1974, a brilliant 32-year-old physicist published a not-quite-two-page paper in the journal Nature — and blew up one of our fundamental assumptions about black holes. The author was Stephen Hawking ...