After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

A 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma (superheated gas) shooting out from galaxy M87's supermassive black hole. The M87 galaxy is monstrous. NASA calls this jet "blowtorch-like," and it seems to be ...

Scientists have for the first time ever succeeded in getting some data on a newborn black hole that was sent hurtling off into space after two larger ones collided together and "birthed" it. The ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

Black holes are one of the most mysterious cosmological phenomena out there. Priya Natarajan calls them, "the point where all known laws of physics break down." She's an astrophysicist at Yale ...

Exploring the BTZ black hole in (2+1)-dimensional gravity took me down a fascinating rabbit hole, connecting ideas I never expected—like black holes and topological phases in quantum matter! When I ...