Black holes are objects with an intense gravitational pull so strong that not even beams of light, the fastest things in the universe, can escape. This makes them impossible to see directly ...

Black holes are as dangerous as they are distant, so scientists set out to simulate one in a lab. What happened next would ...

There’s a good chance that the average person on the street knows what a black hole is – or at least, the very basics. White ...

As far as supermassive black holes go, the one at the center of the Milky Way is relatively sedate. But, even in its supposed quiescent state, Sagittarius A* is prone to the occasional belch or ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

Recent research using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Telescope reveals that black holes are not just passive consumers ...

As the author concludes, “No wonder Einstein never believed in black holes.” Chown’s book is primarily a chronicle of the researchers who helped make black holes believable, not just for the ...

The black hole is known as 1ES 1927+654 ... In 2018, they watched as the swirling hot plasma that makes up its corona suddenly disappeared, before coming back a few months later – which ...

Scientists have published a spectacular new polarised light image of the strong magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Seen in polarised light for ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars." Astronomers have detected the largest black hole-launched jet ever ...