A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant galaxy. This sudden activation provides a unique opportunity to study the behavior of these cosmic giants in real time ...

A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While famous for devouring anything and everything in its gravitational ...

This is what is called a stellar mass black hole. But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they form.

First up is WR 124, a type of star called a Wolf-Rayet which is a potential precursor to a black hole. As these old, massive stars come to the end of their lives, they start throwing off layers of ...

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 ...

Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence of a "direct collapse" black hole.

Researchers Discover Supermassive Black Hole in Neighboring Galaxy The Center for Astrophysics holds a 15-inch Great Refractor Telescope along with a 1.2-meter-diameter Millimeter Wave Telescope.

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.

And while this is the largest black hole merger we've seen, larger black holes exist. The M87 black hole has an estimated mass of 6.5 billion suns. The TON 618 black hole has 40 billion solar masses.

That’s the first optically discovered off-nuclear TDE discovered.” A six-panel illustration of a tidal disruption event around a supermassive black hole. NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) ...

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 ...