Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...
Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...
2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months.
Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...
Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The ...
When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But ...
"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...
Astronomers found signs of a past stellar collision in a red giant orbiting a dormant black hole. Starquakes show the star is ...
Experts in black hole astronomy and artificial intelligence will combine for the project at Heriot-Watt University.
Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...
An internationally-recognised expert on black hole astrophysics, Sera Markoff, has become the first woman to be appointed as ...
A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about ...