Astronomers detect strongest evidence yet of intermediate-mass black hole in far-off globular cluster
A serendipitous discovery courtesy of Hubble's high resolution and sensitivity
Black hole articles
Astronomers witness ultrarare real-time formation of a supermassive black hole
A similar occurrence is possible at the center of the Milky Way
Here is what it would look like if you traveled into the event horizon of a black hole
Everything goes wonky when gravity is bending light around you
Editor's take: Black holes fascinate me. Nobody knows what goes on inside the cosmic maw. Math and physics break down as we get closer to the singularity, so we can only use our imagination to wonder what it's like on the inside, but that's okay. Theoretical cosmologist and physicist Professor Janna Levin once said, "Black holes are the ideal fantasy scape on which to play out thought experiments that target the core truths about the cosmos."
Astronomers detected the most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way
Discovered by chance, because its companion star had a strange "wobbling" motion
Astronomers discover why a binary black hole system has the hiccups
Sudden X-ray activity linked to unusual behavior of a supermassive black hole
Astronomers capture the most captivating and detailed image yet of the Milky Way's black hole
Polarized light reveals swirls of magnetic fields, replacing the blobs of radiation seen previously
The universe's brightest object eats the mass of the sun every day, astronomers say
17 billion times the mass of Earth's sun and 500 trillion times brighter
Supermassive black hole at the center of M87 is spinning, new research confirms
Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope are still making black hole science spin
Supermassive black holes eat gas and dust in mere months, 3D simulation suggests
In context: Supermassive black holes are among the most extreme phenomena that humans have discovered in outer space. They possess a mass hundreds of thousands, or even millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, and they are responsible for powering unprecedented luminous events known as quasars.
Mysterious cosmic filaments fill the central region of the Milky Way
New radio observations of our galaxy uncover yet another mystery involving Sagittarius A*
Astronomers observe the largest energy explosion ever detected in the universe
What just happened? Supermassive black holes are some of the most extreme phenomena existing in the universe, as they tend to consume and swallow everything in their wake. One of these cosmic monsters was recently identified as AT2021lwx, an incredibly powerful explosion that surpasses everything recorded thus far.
This supermassive black hole is leaving a trail of new stars in its wake
Black hole may have been kicked out of a galaxy by two others
Researchers discover a potential supermassive black hole wandering through space
Leaving a trail of stars and excited gas after its passage
Astronomers share first image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way
Sagittarius A* is roughly 27,000 light years away from Earth
Event Horizon Telescope captures image of a black hole's plasma jets
In a galaxy far, far away
NASA visualizes a black hole's warped world
Giving us a better understanding of how gravity affects space and time
Taking that picture of a black hole required massive amounts of data
Stack and stacks of drives were needed
The first-ever image of a black hole has been released
"A one-way door out of our universe"
The world could get its first real glimpse of a black hole on April 10
It will be a 'groundbreaking' event
