Finally, if you get a chance to sit down and talk to the family member or friend you’re trying to help, one approach can help ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

An interstellar probe sent to a black hole could complete its journey and send data back to Earth in less than a century – if we can find a black hole close enough. Cosimo Bambi at Fudan University in ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies. But there's an open question in ...

Deep in the distant universe, astronomers have found a black hole that seems to be breaking the usual rules for how fast these cosmic beasts can grow. The object, called RACS J0320-35, is so far away ...

Images taken of the Universe's most photogenic black hole over time reveal strange and exciting changes in its magnetic field. Using observations obtained using the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017, ...

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.

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...