Black holes may appear to be shaped like a doughnut, but the truth is more complicated than that, explain our readers ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

The system is known as J1218/1219+1035, and is located 1.2 billion light-years from us. The three nuclei of the three ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption event.

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...

When black holes emerge out of hiding to feast on their prey and some type of matter is sucked into their celestial maw, they begin to glow brightly. The events, dubbed “extreme nuclear transients,” ...

A new simulation could help solve one of astronomy’s longstanding mysteries—how supermassive black holes formed so rapidly—along with a new one: What are the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

To study the origins of our universe is to struggle with profound chicken-or-egg questions. We know the Big Bang happened. Cosmologists can see its afterglow in the sky. But no one knows whether the ...

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, that's what defines a black hole, right? Well, it depends on what you mean by ...