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Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter swirls around itScientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence
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Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions moreBlack holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time.
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Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at usThe newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.
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NASA's Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange 'sideways' black hole in a cosmic crime sceneWhat knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are trying to solve.
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Do black holes really evaporate — and how do we know?In 1974, Stephen Hawking proposed that black holes could evaporate. But do we understand how this might happen?
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Scientists discover 2 stars dancing around the Milky Way's black hole — and they could point to a type of planet never seen beforeAstronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them can offer a rare glimpse into how stars can endure — at least briefly — the immense gravity exerted by such cosmic behemoths.
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Scientists followed a mysterious signal — and found 2 black holes gorging on something like never beforeWhile investigating a mysterious radiation signal unlike any seen before, astronomers may have uncovered a rare pair of binary supermassive black holes with a truly monstrous appetite.
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Scientists spot 'L-shaped structures' and 'weird things' near monster black hole in epic new Hubble telescope imagesNew Hubble Space Telescope images of a black hole-powered quasar reveal 'weird' structures and gigantic jets of energy that scientists are just beginning to explain.
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Black hole paradox that stumped Stephen Hawking may have a solution, new paper claimsAs black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a new theory suggests.
