This was true of the black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728, a distant and unremarkable galaxy 300 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. After being inactive for decades, it ...

Artist’s impression of the accretion disc around the massive black hole Ansky and its interaction with a small celestial object Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long flares as well as short flashes every day.

Light behaves in surprising ways near a black hole. Photons that venture too close are swallowed without trace. But others, lucky enough to skim just outside the danger zone, may escape—though ...

Astronomers have uncovered what they say just might be the heaviest black hole we've ever seen. The "ultramassive" black hole is located at the center of a galaxy nearly six billion light years ...

"Black holes are still, at their core, a mystery. We know that they are big dense objects and that they attract other things to them through gravity, but we haven't gotten close to a black hole." ...

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating cylinder and magnetic coils. Studying the bomb could help us better ...

But it turns out that this black hole only accelerated about half the stars. The other half got sped up in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is the closest galaxy to our own.

More A new kind of black hole and a newly proven theory The original understanding of how black holes formed was that when a sufficiently large sun (about 10 times or more massive than our sun ...

The first image of M87* — and humanity's first image of any black hole, for that matter — was taken by the EHT in 2017 and released to the public in 2019.

This new research gives credence to a theory that posits our galaxy is inside of a black hole, which in turn is located inside another, bigger parent universe. Getty According to Space.com, this ...

The Milky Way may have had a second black hole at its heart between 10 billion and 10 million years ago—one that acted a bit like a star goalkeeper.