New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion ...

What does it take to outshine 10 trillion suns? In the case of the cosmic flare nicknamed “Superman,” the answer is a ...

In 2017, the EHT collaboration yielded the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Messier 87 ...

Researchers find an incredible flare from supermassive black hole J2245+3743, shining brighter than ever recorded in history.

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

A massive star was torn apart by a supermassive black hole, producing the most powerful and distant flare ever observed, ...

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a ...

Auroras could be visible — especially in darker, rural areas — in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, New ...

Images of black holes are more than just fascinating visuals: they could serve as a “testing ground” for alternative theories of gravity in the future. An international team led by Prof. L ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...