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.

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

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 ...