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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists witnessed a brilliant light show at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Scientists Turned the James Webb to Examine Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy and Saw Something Wild

By Noor Al-Sibai

The hole in the first-ever image of a black hole released a massive burp of gamma rays while astronomers were staring at it.

Astronomers Were Watching a Black Hole When It Suddenly Exploded With Gamma Rays

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that's gobbling up matter at a seemingly impossible rate, surpassing previous limits.

There’s Something Impossible About This Ravenous Black Hole, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

New observations uncovered more supermassive black holes than previously detected, which could hold clues to how they first formed.

The Early Universe Was Absolutely Littered With Black Holes, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

New NASA data shows a supermassive black hole on a merciless killing spree, destroying one star and using its body as a new weapon.

Murderous Black Hole Goes on Rampage, Leaves Path of Wrecked Stars in Its Wake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A supermassive black hole is shooting out a jet so intense it's causing stars along its path to erupt in explosions called novas.

Scientists Say Furious Black Hole Making Nearby Stars Explode

By Frank Landymore

If true, this could resolve the information paradox posed by the existence of black holes, as first pointed out by Stephen Hawking.

Black Holes May Actually Be “Frozen Stars,” Scientists Claim

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have determined that a supermassive black hole is starving a galaxy of essential materials to make new stars.

Scientists Spot Giant Black Hole Destroying Galaxy

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least once a decade.

Scientists Suggest Tiny Black Holes Are Regularly Cruising Through Our Star System

By Victor Tangermann

Primordial black holes neatly explain where all the dark matter in the universe is hiding — if we could find them.

Astronomers Struggle to Explain Why Ancient Black Holes Are Nowhere to Be Found

By Frank Landymore

Falling into the event horizon of a black hole may mean certain death, but it sure as hell makes for a cool view.

NASA Releases Video of What It’s Like to Fall Into a Black Hole

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers captured the black hole at the center of the Milky Way in polarized light and its surrounding magnetic fields for the first time.

Scientists Capture Amazing Image of Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have found that "little red dots" in James Webb Space Telescope images are "baby" supermassive black holes.

Scientists Surprised to Realize Red Dots in James Webb Images Are Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted an unusual "extremely red" supermassive black hole billions of light-years away.

James Webb Spots “Extremely Red” Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

The black hole formed just 400 million years after the Big Bang, but is so massive that it should've taken far longer to reach its size.

James Webb Finds Most Ancient Black Hole Ever Discovered

By Frank Landymore

A team of astronomers has suggested that primordial black holes (PBH) are passing by the Solar System, causing planets' orbits to "wobble."

Small Black Holes Affecting Earth’s Orbit, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

In a new paper, astrophysicist Earl Bellinger wondered if black holes could be trapped inside stars, a theory inspired by "Black Hole Sun."

There May Be Small Black Holes Inside Some Stars, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

The supermassive black hole that made headlines for being the first one to be imaged now became the first observed to be spinning.

Remember That Black Hole They Took a Picture of? It’s Spinning

By Frank Landymore

James Webb Spots Oldest Supermassive Black Hole Ever

James Webb Spots Oldest Supermassive Black Hole Ever

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of astronomers has detected the faint hum of gravitational waves echoing throughout our universe, possibly caused by black holes.

Astronomers Detect Mysterious Ripples in Spacetime Caused by Ancient Black Holes

By Sharon Adarlo

A poor star some 173 million light years succumbed to the gaping maw of a black hole, dying in what's known as a tidal disruption event.

Grim Images Show Helpless Star Disappearing Into Black Hole

By Frank Landymore

For the first time, astronomers have captured the powerful jets spewing out of a black hole and the black hole itself in the same image.

New Image of Black Hole Shows Colossal Jets Looking Like Tentacles

By Victor Tangermann

JWST Looks Back In Time And Discovers Oldest Known Black Hole in the Universe

JWST Looks Back In Time And Discovers Oldest Known Black Hole in the Universe

By Noor Al-Sibai

By observing companion stars orbiting black holes, scientists may have gathered indirect proof that black holes accrete massive clumps of dark matter.

Black Holes May Be Engulfed In Dark Matter, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Gaze Upon the Brutal Beauty of Four Massive Black Holes About to Crash

Gaze Upon the Brutal Beauty of Four Massive Black Holes About to Crash

By Frank Landymore

What appears to be a "rogue" supermassive black hole is leaving behind a trail of newly spawned stars in its wake as it escapes its host galaxy.

Hubble May Have Spotted a Supermassive Black Hole Breaking Free From Its Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

A strange cloud of dust and gas is slowly being sucked into the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, an extreme rendezvous of epic proportions that we've closely been following for at least 20 Earth years.

Large, Mysterious Object Getting Sucked Into Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

A radical series of new studies suggests that dark energy may be contained in black holes, which they found increased in mass as the universe expanded.

All the Missing Dark Energy Hiding in Black Holes, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers has proposed that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations could be using black holes as quantum computers, Universe Today reports.

Aliens May Be Creating Black Holes to Store Quantum Information, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists believe an immense explosion of epic proportions may have been the result of a black hole and a star colliding.

Staggering Galactic Explosion Blamed on Black Hole Collision

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers, expecting a gamma ray burst, instead discovered an extremely distant black hole that is regularly destroy stars.

Black Hole In “Hyper-Feeding Frenzy” Chews Through Stars and Shoots Its Leftovers Towards Earth

By Frank Landymore

Physicists suggest wormholes, hypothetical tunnels linking one part of the universe to another, might be disguised as black holes.

Objects We Thought Were Black Holes May Actually Be Wormholes, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Earthlings, meet your celestial neighbor: an absolutely massive black hole, which is lying dormant in a nearby binary star system.

Scientists Discover Closest Known Black Hole to Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's fairly common knowledge that black holes can eat stars — but until recently, it was much rarer to hear about them "burping up" those stars' remains.

Black Hole Spotted Burping Up Material Years After Eating a Star

By Noor Al-Sibai

If staring at this image makes you feel like you're being swallowed by a black hole, you're not alone. According to a new paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, approximately 86 percent of people experience the same effect.

Argh! This Optical Illusion Makes You Feel Like You’re Falling Into a Black Hole

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers released a new image of M87*, a black hole photographed in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope -- and it doesn't match the first one.

Bad News! That Image of a Black Hole Might Be Totally Screwed Up

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope initiative have shown off the first image of the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy.

Scientists Release Image of Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA released creepy wailing noises made by a black hole in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster on Wednesday. Researchers have studied it since 2003.

Scientists Capture the Mournful Wailing of a Black Hole

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Event Horizon Telescope project, which brought us the first-ever image of a black hole back in 2019, is back for its latest announcement this month.

The Black Hole Telescope Scientists Are Hyping Something Huge

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists claim to have solved on of the biggest paradoxes plaguing theoretical physicists for decades, the BBC reports.

Hairy Black Holes Key to Solving Paradoxes of Universe

By Victor Tangermann

The Hubble Space Telescope found a star formation in a dwarf starburst galaxy. The black hole in the center may have actually created the star formation.

Scientists Discover Black Hole That’s Creating Stars Instead of Devouring Them

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Oh my god, y'all — the supermassive black holes at the heart of galaxies like our Milky Way may have BFFs.

Astrophysicist Says That Supermassive Black Holes May Have “Friends”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have caught a black hole — or possibly a neutron star — in the act of being born.

Astronomers May Have Spotted a Black Hole Being Born

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers from the University of Texas have spotted a gigantic black hole at the heart of our galaxy's many dwarf satellite galaxies.

Scientists Discover Enormous Black Hole Right Near Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

scientists this week tossed eight stars against a black hole one million times the mass of the Sun in a simulated battle to see which intergalactic contender would win.

Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out How to Kill Stars with Black Holes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of researchers say that the Moon is peppered with craters from miniature black holes — and they may reveal some breakthrough insights on dark matter.

Scientists Say Mini-Black Holes May Have Smashed Into the Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers say they’ve found evidence that the expanding universe is causing black holes to grow with it.

Uh Oh, Turns Out the Universe Might Be Making Black Holes Even Bigger

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists might have discovered a rare and (frankly) unsettling cosmic event: a black hole eating a star from the inside out and causing a supernova.

Parasite Black Hole Eats Gigantic Star from Inside Out

By Tony Ho Tran

Astronomers Find “Dancing Ghosts” Haunting Space Near Black Holes

Astronomers Find “Dancing Ghosts” Haunting Space Near Black Holes

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of scientists detected a series of bright X-ray flares coming from one of the least expected places: from behind a supermassive black hole.

In a Bizarre Twist, Astronomers Detect Light Coming From Behind Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted evidence that a distant star has wrapped itself around a supermassive black hole, a process known as "spaghettification."

Scientist Spot Star That’s Been Stretched Out and Wrapped Around a Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discovered "The Unicorn," which is what they're calling an extremely tiny black hole closer to the Earth than any other black hole we know about.

Astronomers Discover Closest-Ever Black Hole to Earth

By Dan Robitzski

The European Southern Observatory published a video that shows what it would be like to leave Earth, plunge into M87, and arrive at its central black hole.

Amazing Video Zooms All the Way From Earth to First Photographed Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A new image, released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, shows the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy in polarized light.

Astronomers Release Stunning New Image of Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Instead of finding one big black hole at the center of a cluster of 250,000 stars, a pair of astronomers found evidence of a school of smaller black holes.

Astronomers Find Five Dozen Baby Black Holes in Distant Psychotic Chaos Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that black holes made of dark matter might be lurking inside neutron stars and eating them from the inside.

Black Holes May Devour Stars From the Inside, Like Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just released a map that shows over 25,000 different supermassive black holes in a tiny portion of the night sky.

Behold This Sky Map of 25,000 Supermassive Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists propose that "stupendously large" black holes between the size of a solar system and an entire galaxy could be hiding throughout the universe.

New Paper Says Black Holes Could Be as Large as an Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of astronomers have detected a violent eruption of light emanating from a galaxy that repeats itself every 114 Earth days.

A Black Hole Bites a Chunk Out of This Star Every 114 Days

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, we could theoretically extract energy from the enormous amounts of emissions emanating from black holes.

Physicists Outline Plan to Harvest Energy From Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre theory claims that dark matter might be made of tiny primordial black holes, which themselves might contain other universes.

Scientists Claim Black Holes Are Made of Collapsed Universes

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have spotted a distant galaxy without its accompanying supermassive black hole — despite its enormous suspected mass.

A Supermassive Black Hole Is Missing, NASA Says

By Victor Tangermann

After a citizen scientist saw what looked like beams of darkness coming out of a black hole, scientists think it's similar to light piercing through clouds.

Hubble Glimpses Huge “Dark Rays” Streaming Out of Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Astrophysicist Janna Levin makes getting gobbled up by a black hole sound almost beautiful, up until the point that it isn't.

This Physicist’s Description of Falling Into a Black Hole is Surprisingly Poetic

By Dan Robitzski