New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months.

Using the ALMA telescope in Chile, an international research team examined seven pairs of merging galaxies to come to the ...

Cutting-edge supercomputer simulations reveal intricate processes around black holes, improving our understanding of ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas ...

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

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

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 ...