When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they had a cosmic oddity on their hands. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope showed a ...

For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest-changing radio signals ever recorded. The event, AT 2024tvd, revealed ...

HSINCHU, Taiwan, Oct. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan, Professor Albert Kong led an international research team that identified ...

Astronomy has a way of surprising you. When you believe the universe has yielded its biggest secrets, distant giants and faint signals come along to pose even more questions. Two recent discoveries ...

We're on a black hole coverage roll this month, so here's another one: a supermassive black hole 12.8 billion lights years from us has been discovered feasting at a rate that scientists describe as "a ...

A supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a supergiant galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, is acting far more strangely than anticipated. Since 2017, astronomers from the Event ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. These can tip the scales at many billions of times the sun’s mass, outweighing even entire galaxies.

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain how some black holes can ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Black holes usually form from stars that burn out and collapse in on themselves, but that cannot explain the red spark of light that could be a ...

Dr. Bernice King and Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz honored their fathers’ legacies with a powerful runway walk during Actively Black’s NYFW show. The emotional moment unfolded as the two daughters of civil ...

The younger black hole, the product of a cataclysmic cosmic event known as a black hole merger, was first spotted in 2019. Now, about 6 years later, a team of international researchers led by the ...