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Side view of a galaxy’s active centre blasting out a strong wind of gas in all directions, shown as yellowish-white streaks.

Star-killing 'black hole wind' spotted in a distant galaxy could explain a major mystery at the Milky Way's center

By Joanna Thompson published

For the first time, scientists discovered a powerful 'black hole wind' that blew through a nearby galaxy for hundreds of days, crushing star formation and reshaping the galaxy. Something similar may already have happened in the Milky Way.

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Zooming into Perseus A with the Event Horizon Telescope reveals details of the powerful jet it is launching.

Event Horizon Telescope spies gargantuan energy jets erupting from nearby supermassive black hole

By Robert Lea published

Astronomers investigated an active supermassive black hole at the heart of Perseus A using the Event Horizon Telescope, spotting an epic battle between gravity and magnetism.

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The sky section of the eROSITA All-Sky Survey catalog in two different representations. The left image shows extended X-ray emission, while the right image shows point-like X-ray sources.

More than 900,000 stars, galaxies and black holes revealed in most detailed X-ray map of the universe ever

By Brandon Specktor published

Scientists using the eROSITA X-ray telescope have released a trove of data that reveals more than 900,000 objects in space, including 700,000 supermassive black holes and other 'exotic' objects.

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Illustration of a prehistoric black hole.

Scientists may finally know where the biggest, oldest black holes in the universe came from

By Paul Sutter published

The presence of supermassive black holes in the earliest epochs of the universe has scientists stumped — but repeated explosions from tiny black holes may offer an explanation.

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The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has released new images of M87* from observations taken in April 2018, one year after the first observations in April 2017. The new observations in 2018, which feature the first participation of the Greenland Telescope, reveal a familiar, bright ring of emission of the same size as we found in 2017. This bright ring surrounds a dark central shadow, and the brightest part of the ring in 2018 has shifted by about 30º relative from 2017 to now lie in the 5 o’clock position.

Right again, Einstein: New snapshot of 1st black hole to be photographed confirms relativity

By Kiley Price published

The new black hole image offers further confirmation for Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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Numerical simulation of cosmic strings.

Cosmic strings can break — and when they do, they shake the universe

By Paul Sutter published

Many models of the universe predict the existence of countless invisible strings stretching across space. New research finds a way these strings might snap — and how we could feel the fallout.

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An artist's impression of the binary system, assuming that the mysterious object is a black hole.

Mysterious deep-space object could be the smallest black hole ever discovered — or the heaviest neutron star

By Ben Turner published

A newly discovered mystery object could be the heaviest neutron star ever seen, the smallest black hole, or something completely new to science.

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A screenshot of a simulation showing how a star is ripped apart by a black hole in a tidal disruption event.

Gory simulation reconstructs the violent clash between a monster black hole and a doomed star

By Robert Lea published

A new cosmic crime scene reconstruction tells the full story of a star ripped apart by a ravenous black hole, revealing a previously unknown aspect of these tidal disruption events.

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An artist's illustration of a black hole's accretion disk.

James Webb telescope discovers the oldest, most distant black hole in the universe

By Ben Turner published

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of the universe's oldest black holes is giving astronomers some vital clues for how they came to be.

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This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy.

Tiny black holes from the dawn of time may be altering our planet's orbit, new study suggests

By Deepa Jain published

A study suggests primordial black holes may make planets and moons near us wobble. If measured experimentally, this will provide the first concrete proof such objects exist.

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