An artist’s rendition of a black hole surrounded by a glowing accretion disc of material, the light from which is warped by the strong gravity. In principle, energy could be harvested from a spinning ...

Armchair astronomers sought to hunt for stars being torn apart by black holes - A new project will capture the night sky over ...

A proposed interstellar mission envisions sending a gram-scale nanocraft, propelled by a laser-driven lightsail to a nearby black hole, achieving approximately one-third the speed of light. Upon ...

There's a gap in black hole masses, and experts believe here is where 'lite intermediate black holes' reside. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

The oldest and most distant black hole known to scientists dates back 13.3 billion years ago, when our universe was still in its teething stage, according to findings published this month. The ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Primordial black holes that formed during the earliest moments of the universe could have swollen ...

Black hole science in 2025 did not advance in gentle increments. It lurched forward in giant steps, from record shattering ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. These can tip the scales at many billions of times the sun’s mass, outweighing even entire galaxies.

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they had a cosmic oddity on their hands. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope showed a ...

A bomb from a black hole would probably be the most destructive weapon in the universe. Hypothetically, it could be created by wrapping one of these cosmic monsters in mirrors and waiting for it to go ...