Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

Black holes are already among the most mysterious objects in the galaxy, and yet, one specific type has almost completely ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Why Some Black Holes Keep ‘Burping’ Light after Eating a Star After black holes devour stars, sometimes the feast comes back up. Yvette Cendes. Tue, June 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC. 16 min read.

By using light to emulate the structure of space-time, researchers can better understand black holes – and the exotic objects ...

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at nearly a third of light speed.

Imagine if a species grew up on a planet that had a black hole moon the mass of the moon. They’d have tides, they’d have an unobstructed view of the night sky, and they’d have no clue about this ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...