Astronomers discover ultrapowerful black hole jet as bright as 10 trillion suns lit by Big Bang’s afterglow
"It's like looking for candlelight in close vicinity to a flashlight that's blazing toward us."
Astronomers simulate a star’s final moments as it’s swallowed by a black hole: ‘Breaks like an egg’
A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.
Black hole dance illuminates hidden math of the universe
Scientists have made the most accurate predictions yet of the gravitational waves produced when two black holes fly past each other.
Doomed star circling supermassive black hole could be ripped apart in less than 6 years
Every time this doomed star plunges through a supermassive black hole's accretion disk, it loses orbital energy and triggers a burst of X-rays.
Hubble Telescope sees wandering black hole slurping up stellar spaghetti
Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its galaxy ripping a star to shreds — offering for the first time evidence of a rogue supermassive black hole in action.
What can ripples in spacetime reveal about black holes? Quite a bit, it turns out
Cosmic echoes from some of the universe's most violent collisions are far more nuanced than scientists had realized, according to new research.
Has the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a ‘missing’ supermassive black hole? (video)
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive black hole in a distant spiral galaxy.
How did this ancient black hole get so big?
While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared.
Ultralight dark matter may have helped monstrous black holes form in the early universe
The infant universe's population of huge black holes could owe itself to ultralight dark matter, scientists say.
NASA spacecraft spots monster black hole bursting with X-rays ‘releasing a hundred times more energy than we have seen elsewhere’
Astronomers have used space-based telescopes, including NASA's Swift X-ray observatory, to watch a monster black hole spring to life with powerful X-ray eruptions.