Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

Black holes, those cosmic objects from which even light cannot escape, remain by definition invisible to our eyes. How then ...

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...

A proposed interstellar mission envisions sending a gram-scale nanocraft, propelled by a laser-driven lightsail to a nearby black hole, achieving approximately one-third the speed of light. Upon ...

Black holes to be shown in action in first 3D movies created using AI - Experts in black hole astronomy and artificial intelligence will combine for the project at Heriot-Watt University.

At the heart of nearly every galaxy lurks a cosmic giant: a supermassive black hole. These mysterious objects, millions to billions of times more massive than our Sun, exert such powerful gravity that ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other to form a larger structure. From Earth’s perspective, the junction of the ...

Gravitational waves from black holes may soon reveal where dark matter is hiding. A new model shows how dark matter surrounding massive black holes leaves detectable fingerprints in the waves recorded ...

The oldest and most distant black hole known to scientists dates back 13.3 billion years ago, when our universe was still in its teething stage, according to findings published this month. The ...

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.

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of life on our world. The moon spins, too.

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the ...