This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...

ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Researchers have created a stunning animation showing the suspected intermediate-mass black hole ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration created a ...

Why they're black: Their gravitational pull is so extreme that even light can't escape Black holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape. Rather than being ...

2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...