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 ...

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

During a press conference at the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Phoenix, Devesh Nandal from the Center ...

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 ...

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 ...

Physicists have detected the biggest ever merger of colliding black holes. The discovery has major implications for researchers’ understanding of how such bodies grow in the Universe. “It’s super ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a black hole, they glow with fierce intensity across the light spectrum. Now, a ...

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.

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 ...