Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that. They are truly fascinating wonders, from how they form, their many types, and ...

The borderlands of black holes ought to be chaotic spaces where the rate at which matter is drawn across into oblivion is ...

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But ...

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

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The researchers in a recent breakthrough have successfully modelled luminous black hole accretion, the process of matter ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

When a star gets too close to a black hole, the gravity of the black hole changes what happens next in really big ways. They ...